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We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

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Book, Remember, Sometimes

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

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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.

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Missing, Legs, Might

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I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.

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Football, Book, Mean

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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.

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Sports, Football, Games

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[about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when you pass on. And the one thing you can do to get you there a bit quicker is something that stops you getting there at all. Oh, I can see that it's a kind of queuejumping. But if someone jumps the queue at the Post Office, people tut. Or sometimes they say, “Excuse me, I was here first.” They don't say, “You will be consumed by hellfire for all eternity.” That would be a bit strong.

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Suicide, Strong, Jumping

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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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Football, Disappointment, Fans

Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

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Heart, Mind, Details

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

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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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Wine, White, Very Good

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So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.

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Treats, Treat Yourself

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I hate time. It never does what you want it to.

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Hate, Doe, Want

Nick Hornby (2008). “Slam”, p.197, Penguin UK

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She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

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Mean, Thinking, Pissed Off

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Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

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Girl, Real, Nice

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To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.

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Writing, Tape, Letters

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.99, Penguin

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Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

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People, Esperanto, Common

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I'd like my life to be like a Bruce Springsteen song. Just once. I know I'm not born to run, I know that Seven Sisters' Road is nothing like Thunder Road, but feelings can't be different, can they?

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Running, Song, Feelings

Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.169, Penguin

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I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit, who can't say 'I love you' even when they want to, who start to cough and sputter and change the subject. But here you are. A living, breathing specimen. Incredible.

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Break Up, Breakup, Real

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.

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Art, Book, Home

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[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.

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Beautiful, Falling In Love, Intelligent

Nick Hornby (2005). “About a Boy”, p.148, Penguin UK

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And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even hard times have things in them that make you feel alive.

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Real, Stupid, Hard Times

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Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

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Self, Lasts, Firsts

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I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.

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Cat, Doors, Healthy

Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.17, Penguin UK

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The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

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Manifestation, Combustion

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

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There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.

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Baby, Differences, Mug

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What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

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Regret, Hate, Glimpse

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It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead.

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People, Tiny, Want

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

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Born: April 17, 1957
Occupation: Novelist
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