Nick Hornby quotes

Nick Hornby is a British author, screenwriter, and essayist, renowned for his witty and insightful explorations of modern relationships and popular culture. His works, such as "High Fidelity" and "About a Boy," have been celebrated for their humor and emotional depth. He has also adapted several of his novels into successful films and continues to influence contemporary storytelling. Here are 117 of his quotes:

Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.

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

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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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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.

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Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

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

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As I get older, the tyranny that football exerts over my life, and therefore over the lives of the people around me, is less reasonable and less attractive.

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Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD - the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn't - when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin's wonderfully greasy sax.

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Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

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

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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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The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.

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You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

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It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

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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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It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

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In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

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It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.

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

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The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.

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