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• It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

  Nick Hornby

  Depression, Brilliant, Being Depressed

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.94, Penguin

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• The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

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  Artistic, Ends, Temperament

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• We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?

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  Building, Sandcastles, Amount

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• A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off with a killer, to grab the attention. Then you've got to take it up a notch, or cool it off a notch…oh, there are a lot of rules.

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  Age, Tape, Attention

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• Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

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  Powerful, Imagination, Stimulants

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.164, Penguin

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• I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly intend to read all of them, more or less. My intentions are good. Anyway, it's my money. And I'll bet you do it too.

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  Book, Writing, Want

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

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• We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

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  Agreement, Punctuation Marks, Locks

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

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• Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Faces

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

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• Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

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  Soul, Balance, Wish

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.86, Penguin

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• Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

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  Girl, Mad, Ugly

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• Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.

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  Home, Lunch, Victory

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• I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

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  Suicide, Tiny, Committed

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• Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something that women want and men can't be bothered with. ... The perfect match, if you ask me, is between the Cosmo woman and the fourteen-year old boy.

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  Girl, Men, Boys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.23, Penguin

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• It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have an individual relationship with our clubs, and I think that we are secretly convinced that none of the other fans understands quite why we have been harder hit than anyone else - we are forced to mourn in public, surrounded by people whose hurt is expressed in forms different from our own.

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  Football, Hurt, Real

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• The trouble with history is that there are too many people involved

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  People, Trouble, Involved

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• I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

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  Believe, Heaven, Want

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• [H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright during the final minutes of a desperately close promotion campaign?

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  Soccer, Female, Finals

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• Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path.

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  War, Book, Reading

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

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• I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

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  Together, Stories, Happens

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.279, Penguin

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• In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

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  Book, Cry, Partners

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

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• Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.

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  Inspirational, Motivational, Art

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

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• And it isn't that I'm so unhappy I don't want to live anymore. That's not what it feels like. It feels more like I'm tired and bored and the party's gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn't seem to be anything to look forward to, so I'd rather call it a day.

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  Party, Home, Tired

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.65, Penguin

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• It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.

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  Turkeys, Miracle, And Love

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• I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

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  Missing, Legs, Might

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• I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

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  Football, Book, Mean

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