Nick Hornby Quotes About Age

Quotes about: Age

• 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.

  Nick Hornby

  Age, Tape, Attention

• 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.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Men, Boys

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

• He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed up sometimes, but he couldn't pretend it was anything stronger than that. So now he used loud angry rock music as a replacement for real feelings, rather than as an expression of them, and he didn't even mind very much. What good were real feelings anyway?

  Nick Hornby

  Pain, Real, Expression

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

• 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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