Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 3

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• There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on the last night of my life; I'd spent the rest of it being afraid of everything.

  Nick Hornby

  Fear, Night, Thinking

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, www.npr.org. 2005.

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• Did I do and say these things? Yes, I did. Are there any mitigating circumstances? Not really, unless any circumstances {in other words, context) can be regarded as mitigating. And before you judge, although you have probably already done so, go away and write down the four worst things you have done to a partner, even if - especially if - your partner doesn't know about them. Don't dress things up, or try to explain them; just write them down, in a list, in the plainest language possible. Finished? Ok, so who's the arsehole now?

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  Writing, Judging, Going Away

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.103, Penguin

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• Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto.

  Nick Hornby

  Men, Worry, Looks

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• Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad".

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Mad, Ugly

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• Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing a Gameboy hour after hour, no one would be on my case. In my social circle, blowing up space monsters is socially acceptable in a way that American Pastoral isn't.

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  Reading, Circles, Space

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

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• And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.

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  Song, People, Want

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.6, Penguin

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• You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

  Nick Hornby

  Believe

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.15, Penguin

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• I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.

  Nick Hornby

  Believe, Heaven, Want

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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.

  Nick Hornby

  Men, Remember, Should

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

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• It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like.

  Nick Hornby

  Depression, Brilliant, Being Depressed

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.94, Penguin

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• Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Faces

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

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• 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

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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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• The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.

  Nick Hornby

  Artistic, Ends, Temperament

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• Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.

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  Powerful, Imagination, Stimulants

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.164, Penguin

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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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• We have one of those conversations where every thing clicks, meshes, corresponds, locks, where even our pauses, even our punctuation marks, seem to be nodding in agreement.

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  Agreement, Punctuation Marks, Locks

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• This thing about looking for someone less different... It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.

  Nick Hornby

  Different, Firsts, Convinced

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.222, Penguin

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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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• Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I've got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can't seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn't be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

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  Soul, Balance, Wish

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.86, Penguin

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• Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

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  Cold, Unhappiness, Drag

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• I've committed to nothing...and that's just suicide...by tiny, tiny increments.

  Nick Hornby

  Suicide, Tiny, Committed

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• You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.

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  Walks

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.190, Penguin

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

  Nick Hornby

  Humans

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• You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.

  Nick Hornby

  Mad

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.205, Penguin

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