Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 2

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• That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short.

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  Errors, People, Joy

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

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• I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.

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  Plot, Popcorn, Credit

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.34, Penguin

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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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• 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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• He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

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  Children, Personality, Talent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

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  People, Healthy, Lovable

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.214, Penguin UK

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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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• I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?

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  World, Feels, My Own

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.299, Penguin

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• We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.

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  Lying, Moving, Mean

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• Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

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  Ties, Long, People

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• I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.

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  Music, Elude, Spit

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

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• I have less time, less tolerance for bullshit, more interest in good taste, more confidence in my own judgement. The culture with which I surround myself is a reflection of my personality and the circumstances of my life, which is in part how it should be.

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  Reflection, Bullshit, Personality

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.22, Penguin

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• You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

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  Heart, Thinking, Remember

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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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• One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.

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  Pride, World, Arguing

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

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• You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in.

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  Life, Happiness, Knives

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• I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids.

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  Live Life, Heart, Kids

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• I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.

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  Thinking, Way, Good Person

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• ...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

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  Men, Worst Enemy, Self

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

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• One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

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  Art, People, Forgiving

  "Juliet, Naked". Book by Nick Hornby, www.npr.org. 2009.

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• Is it wrong, wanting to be at home with your record collection? It's not like collecting records is like collecting stamps, or beermats, or antique thimbles. There's a whole world in here, a nicer, dirtier, more violent, more peaceful, more colorful, sleazier, more dangerous, more loving world than the world I live in; there is history, and geography, and poetry, and countless other things I should have studied at school, including music.

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  Home, School, Should Have

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• Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or something - not unhappiness, exactly, but some kind of quiet, deep regret... I keep wanting to apologize to the little guy: "I'm sorry, I've let you down. I was the person who was supposed to look after you, but I blew it: I made wrong decisions at bad times, and I turned you into me.

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  Sorry, Couple, Regret

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• I can see that now. I can see everything once it’s already happened — I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.

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  Past, Very Good, Happened

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

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• I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again.

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  Life, Thinking, Twenties

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• We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

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  Want, Badness

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