Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 8

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• Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive.

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  Suicide, Suicidal, Next Day

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.

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  Past, Very Good, I Can

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.95, Penguin

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• There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now.
  (on David Beckham)

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  Sports, Stars, Doubt

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• I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: She hated them, and wanted to send them back from where they came from.

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  Long, People, Black

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• What good were real feelings anyway?

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  Real, Feelings, Real Feelings

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.127, Penguin

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• There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

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  Life, Littles, Used

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.24, Penguin

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• The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.

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  Narrative, Behind You, Bunch

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.227, Penguin UK

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• We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

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  Animal, Tanks, Odor

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.18, Penguin

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• It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already.

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  Reading, Opportunity, Air

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• It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything that you can build into a coherent whole.

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  Crazy, Writing, Definitions

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

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  Football, Radio, Common

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• Linda seemed to recognize loneliness. Possibly she could see it sitting opposite her, sipping lager and trying not to lose its temper. It was an illness, loneliness-it made you weak, gullible, feebleminded.

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  Loneliness, Opposites, Trying

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.157, Penguin UK

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• I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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  Reading, Maps, Empires

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

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• Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.

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  Dad, Years, Monkeys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.314, Penguin

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• Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

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  Book, Ideas, Clubs

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• By the early seventies I had become an Englishman - that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.

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  Half, England, Hated

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

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• As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

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  Football, People, Attractive

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.173, Penguin UK

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• Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

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  Heart, Swings, Cds

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.186, Penguin

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• Human beings are millions of things in one day.

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  One Day, Humans, Millions

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• Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.

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  Live Life, Emotional, Unhappy

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• I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it's going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn't have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn't want that.

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  Moving, Thinking, Forever

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads.

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  Sex, Dad, Fall

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.152, Penguin

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• I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.

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  Wife, My Wife

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• Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

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  Reading, Book, Ideas

  "This much I know". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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• Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

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  Hurt, Phones, Years

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