Nick Hornby quotes - page 5

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at. (Nick Hornby)
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. View quote
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Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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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. View quote
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I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. View quote
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He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale. View quote
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You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you. View quote
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...I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all. View quote
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I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign. (Nick Hornby)
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. View quote
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Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative. View quote
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What really matters is what you like, not what you are like. View quote
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See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I'm looking for someone, and before I know it I've found her. View quote
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Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways. View quote
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I'm sorry, but there's no disturbed mental balance here, my friend. I'd say he got it just right. Bad thing upon bad thing upon bad thing... Surely that's fair enough? Surely the coroner's report should read, "He took his own life after sober and careful contemplation of the fucking shambles it had become." View quote
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Nick Hornby

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Occupation: English Writer
Born: April 17, 1957
Quotes count: 117
Wikipedia: Nick Hornby

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