Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 6

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• I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.

  Nick Hornby

  Should Have, Age, Forget

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.178, Penguin

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• What went wrong? Nothing and everything.

  Nick Hornby

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.144, Penguin

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• One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.

  Nick Hornby

  One Day, Arses, Able

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• But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.

  Nick Hornby

  Temperature, Trouble

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• He'd told her it was just a scratch and got cross when she hadn't offered morphine.

  Nick Hornby

  Scratches, Crosses, Morphine

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.86, Penguin UK

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• I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Want, Boring

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• I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Book, People

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• The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

  Nick Hornby

  Truth Will Set You Free, Noses, Confessing

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• Loving people, and allowing yourself to be loved, was only worth the risk if the odds were in your favor, but they quite clearly weren't. 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. So how smart did you have to be to work out that it just wasn't worth the risk?

  Nick Hornby

  Smart, Odds, People

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• It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.

  Nick Hornby

  Hopeless

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• I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Phones, Doors

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• Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

  Nick Hornby

  Awkward, Flesh, Threatening

  "High Fidelity". Book by Nick Hornby, 1995.

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• So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Cat

  Nick Hornby (2006). “The complete polysyllabic spree”

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• It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

  Nick Hornby

  Song, Talent, Made

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.143, Penguin

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• For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.

  Nick Hornby

  Regret, Years, Opposites

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• That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all

  Nick Hornby

  Lonely, People, Life Is

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.162, Penguin

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• Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.

  Nick Hornby

  Thinking, Phones, Numbers

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• I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

  Nick Hornby

  Humans

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• Several months later, and I have finally read one of the three (books), even though I wanted to read all three of them immediately. What happened in between? Other books, is what happened. Other books, other moods, other obligations, other appetites, other reading journeys.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Reading, Journey

  Nick Hornby (2012). “More Baths Less Talking: Notes from the Reading Life of a Celebrated Author Locked in Battle with Football, Family, and Time Itself”, p.82, McSweeney's

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• Reading begets reading.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Begets

  Nick Hornby (2008). “Shakespeare Wrote for Money”, McSweeneys Books

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• Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am.

  Nick Hornby

  Men, Thinking, Worst Enemy

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.131, Penguin

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• Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

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  Sad, Complicated, Bleakness

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• I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. I suppose it's why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible.

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  Sorry, Thinking, People

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• But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?

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  Powerful, Creating, Years

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• If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.

  Nick Hornby

  Should Have, Wanted, Mess

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.15, Penguin

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