Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 9

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• ...You can find people. It's like those acrobatic displays.... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn't really matter who they are, as long as they're there and you don't let them go away without finding someone else.

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  Pyramids, Long, People

  Nick Hornby (1999). “About a Boy”, p.226, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a drink?

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  Next Week, Unhappy, London

  Nick Hornby (2009). “Juliet, Naked”, p.134, Penguin UK

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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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• I have a really low boredom threshold.

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  Boredom, Lows, Threshold

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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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• He would read up on parenting, if he thought it would help, but his errors always seemed too basic for the manuals. "Always tell your kids they have siblings..." He couldn't imagine any child-raising guru taking the trouble to write that down. Maybe there was a gap in the market.

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  Children, Sibling, Kids

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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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• 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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• We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons.

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  People, Together, Different

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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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• 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. And then there's music, and girls, and drugs, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.

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  Girl, Real, Hard Times

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

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• No time spent with a book is ever entirely wasted, even if the experience is not a happy one: there’s always something to be learned. It’s just that, every now and again, you can hit a patch of reading that makes you feel as if you’re pootling about. [...] But what can you do about it? We don’t choose to waste our reading time; it just happens. The books let us down.

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  Book, Reading, Waste

  "Stuff I've been reading". www.believermag.com. July/August 2011.

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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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• So now what? What happens when words fail us?

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  Failing, Happens

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• You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it's just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who'd believe in this character then?

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  Believe, Character, People

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.85, Penguin

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• What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.

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  Done, Taste, Harm

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.65, Penguin

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• When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.

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  Reading, Sleep, Unhappy

  Nick Hornby (2005). “A Long Way Down”, p.137, 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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• He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.

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  Chocolate, Ends, Scales

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

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• Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.

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  Football, Kings, Missing

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.109, Penguin UK

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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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• I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

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  Suicidal, People, Far Away

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