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"that maybe, given the right set of peculiar, freakish, probably unrepeatable circumstances, it's not what you like but what you're like that's important."

"And there is such a thing as the look of love-Dusty didn't lead us up the garden path entirely-its just that the look of love isn't what I expected it to be. It's not huge eyes almost bursting with longing situated somewhere in the middle of a double bed with the covers turned down invitingly; its just as likely to be the look of benevolent indulgence that a mother gives a toddler, or a look of amused exasperation"

"You just .. you just don't do anything. You get lost in your head, and sit around thinking instead of getting on with something, and most of the time you think rubbish. You always seem to miss what's really happening."

"my relationship was what gave me my sense of location. And if you lose your sense of location, you get homesick."

"I realize that all Charlie has done is rephrase my own feelings about my genius for being normal; maybe that particular talent - my only one, as it happens - was overrated anyway."

"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pine into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."

"It's not a case of the glass being half full or half empty; more that we tipped a whole half-pine into an empty pint pot. I had to see how much was there, though, and now I know."

"If someone wanted to know how to get off with seventeen women, or more, no less, that's what I'd tell them: ask questions. It works precisely because that isn't how you're supposed to do it, if you listen to the collective male wisdom. There are still enough of the old-style, big-mouthed, self-opinionated egomaniacs around to make someone like me appear refreshingly different."

"I can see it now. I can see everything once it's already happened - I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand."

"They're as close to being mad as makes no difference."