Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 2

• But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore.

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  Internet, Forgotten, Changed

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• One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.

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  Perfect, Gone, Opinion

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.4, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable.

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  Sarcasm, Compassion, Two

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.123, Penguin

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  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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• 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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• 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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• 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.

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  Men, Worry, Looks

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• ¿Por qué la lectura asusta tanto a la gente? Claro, yo podía ser bastante antisocial cuando estábamos de viaje, pero si estuviera jugando a la Gameboy hora tras hora, nadie me echaría la bronca. En mi círculo social, hacer explotar monstruos espaciales es socialmente aceptable de una forma que American Pastoral no lo es.

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  Reading, Circles, Space

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

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