But I'd felt as if I'd pissed my life away in the same way … - Nick Hornby

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But I'd felt as if I'd pissed my life away in the same way that you can piss money away. I'd had a life, full of kids and wives and jobs and all the usual stuff, and I'd somehow managed to mislay it. No, you see, that's not right. I knew where my life was, just as you know where the money goes when you piss it away. I hadn't mislaid it at all. I'd spent it.

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Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter.

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Alternative Names: Nicholas Peter John Hornby • Nicholas P. J. Hornby • N. P. J. Hornby • N. Hornby • Nicholas Hornby • Hornby, Nick • Hornby, Nicholas Peter John

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