Nick Hornby Quotes

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• Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one.

  Nick Hornby

  Giving, Records, Stores

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• All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

  Nick Hornby

  Important

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.291, Penguin

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• Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Alive, Bad Times, Good Things

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• Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

  Nick Hornby

  Long Way Down, Know How, Knows

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• I never really recovered from the shock of discovering that women do what we do; they save their best pairs for the nights when they are going to sleep with somebody. When you live with a woman, these faded, shrunken tatty scraps suddenly appear on radiators all over the house; your lascivious schoolboy dreams of adulthood as a time when you are surrounded by exotic lingerie for ever and ever amen...those dreams crumble to dust.

  Nick Hornby

  Dream, Sleep, Night

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.57, Penguin

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• It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, People, Chemistry

  "High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in any form that interested us, anyway, and the next you couldn't miss them; they were everywhere, all over the place. One moment you wanted to clonk them on the head for being your sister, or someone else's sister, and the next you wanted to....actually, we didn't know what we wanted next, but it was something. Almost overnight, all these sisters (there was no other kind of girl, not yet)had become interesting, disturbing, even.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Interesting, Missing

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.16, Penguin

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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

  Music, Song, Pain

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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• Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Important, Trying

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• Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.

  Nick Hornby

  Hopeful, Way, Sentimental

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin

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• It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Boys, Adults

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.262, Penguin

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• When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.

  Nick Hornby

  Memories, Emotion, Ends

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• It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

  Nick Hornby

  Romance, Dip, Metaphor

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.52, Penguin

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• What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Records, Firsts

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• It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

  Nick Hornby

  Relationship, Boyfriend, Husband

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• For alarmingly large chunks of an average day, I am a moron.

  Nick Hornby

  Average, Fever Pitch, Moron

  "Fever Pitch". Book by Nick Hornby, 1992.

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• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

  Nick Hornby

  Needs, Dramatic, Being Human

  "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

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• I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.

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  Live Life, Heart, Kids

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• You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

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  Heart, Thinking, Remember

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• One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

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  Perfect, Gone, Opinion

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.4, Penguin

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• Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

  Nick Hornby

  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

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• I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

  Nick Hornby

  Plot, Popcorn, Credit

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.34, Penguin

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• But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.

  Nick Hornby

  Internet, Forgotten, Changed

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