People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching viol…

Nick Hornby
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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss. ✨ Nick Hornby (1996). High Fidelity, p.36, Penguin
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