Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 4

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• The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they've been listening to the sad songs longer than they've been living the unhappy lives.

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  Song, People, Listening

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

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• Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

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  Men, Remember, Should

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.26, Penguin

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• You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.

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  Way, Force, Bubbles

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.63, Penguin

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• I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush brings, just to get you started and to push you over the humps. And then, when the energy from that shove has gone and you come to something approaching a halt, you have to look around and see what you've got. It could be something completely different, it could be something roughly the same, but gentler and calmer, or it could be nothing at all.

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  Relationship, Crush, Thinking

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.63, Penguin UK

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• There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

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  People, Twenties, Lucky

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.118, Penguin

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• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone

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  Dramatic, Being Human, Enough

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

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• It's often the way that people who take their work seriously laugh at stupid jokes; it's as if they are under-humored and, as a consequence, suffer from premature laugh-ejaculation.

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  Stupid, Ejaculation, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.183, Penguin

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• Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.

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  Fun, Lying, Writing

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

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  Book, Remember, Sometimes

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

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• A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they've all let him down.

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  Death, Sorry, Fighting

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• [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queue­jumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

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  Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

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  Sports, Football, Games

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• But all three of them had had to lose things in order to gain other things. Will had lost his shell and his cool and his distance, and he felt scared and vulnerable, but he got to be with Rachel; and Fiona had lost a big chunk of Marcus, and she got to stay away from the casualty ward; and Marcus had lost himself, and got to walk home from school with his shoes on.

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  Distance, School, Home

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.232, Penguin

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• I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

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  Heart, Mind, Details

  Nick Hornby (2006). “Housekeeping Vs. the Dirt”, McSweeneys Books

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• Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.

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  Sometimes, Judged

  "How to Be Good". Book by Nick Hornby, May 31, 2001.

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• So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

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  Treats, Treat Yourself

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• I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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  Wine, White, Very Good

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• I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

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  Hate, Doe, Want

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Slam”, p.197, Penguin UK

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• And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

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  Real, Stupid, Hard Times

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• She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

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  Mean, Thinking, Pissed Off

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• Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

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  People, Esperanto, Common

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• [...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

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  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Intelligent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “About a Boy”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

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  Writing, Tape, Letters

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.99, Penguin

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• Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

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  Girl, Real, Nice

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