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Nick Hornby  Quotes
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...

—Nick Hornby

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FearLifeLife-And-Living
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What was in it for me? I wasn’t asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn’t she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could,...

—Nick Hornby

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SexTeenagers
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A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for prospective partners.

—Nick Hornby

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DatingInterestsRelationships
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Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this.

—Nick Hornby

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DefeatSports
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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.

—Nick Hornby

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I don’t have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes—and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don’t think...

—Nick Hornby

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Reading
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It didn’t help that I was never allowed to study anything remotely contemporary until the last year of university: there was never any sense of that leading to this. If anything, my education gave me...

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EducationLiterature
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I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper.

—Nick Hornby

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DenialLoss
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contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.

—Nick Hornby

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HumorPoetry
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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.

—Nick Hornby

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Det var nästan som att upptäcka en författare man inte läst, fast man stöter i och för sig hela tiden på författare som man inte har läst medan det är mycket sällsynt, åtminstone i vuxen...

—Nick Hornby

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ArtistMusicPop
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both...

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Football
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Of course Tucker Crowe was in pain when he made [the record], but he couldn’t just march into a recording studio and start howling. He’d have sounded mad and pathetic. He had to calm the...

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ArtCreativityMusic
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All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I’m beginning to see why people don’t do it more often.

—Nick Hornby

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AmericanSex
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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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Break-UpsDatingLove
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What did I think I was doing? What did she think she was doing? When I want to kiss people in that way now, with mouths and tongues and all that, it’s because I want...

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KissingYoung-Love
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my friends don’t seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven’t lost.

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FriendsLife
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Dave and Serge…played the Fiddler’s Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They were standing on chairs adn lying on the floor,...

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ExcitementLive-BandMusic
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And I have to say, books haven’t helped much with all this. Because whenever you read anything about love, whenever anyone tries to define it, there’s always a state or an abstract noun, and I...

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DatingLoveRelationships
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When it came down to it, he just wasn’t that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing “Both Sides Now” with your eyes closed; when...

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Humor-InspirationalTruths
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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.

—Nick Hornby

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ArtReligion
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And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these...

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Love-Of-MusicMusicMusical-Taste
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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. … But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more...

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BooksIdentityIndividuality
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Everyone knows the song that Millwall fans sing, to the tune of „Sailing”: ‘No one likes us/No one likes us/No one likes us/We don’t care.’ In fact I have always felt that the song is...

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Arsenal-FcFootball
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Because . . . most of us think that the point is something to do with work, or kids, or family, or whatever. But you don’t have any of that. There’s nothing between you and...

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DepressionHumorLife-Lessons
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The difference between sex with David and sex with Stephen is like the difference between science and art. With Stephen it’s all empathy and imagination and exploration and the shock of the new, and the...

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MarriageSex
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He was a story at least, even if he never became anything else.

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DatingLoveRelationships
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When your sad–like really sad–you only want to be with other people who are sad.

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A-Long-Way-DownLifeSad
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I would never attempt to dissuade anyone from reading a book. But please, if you’re reading something that’s killing you, put it down and read something else, just as you would reach for the remote...

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FictionJoyJoy-Of-Reading
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Women who disapprove of men – and there’s plenty to disapprove of – should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.

—Nick Hornby

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MenWomen
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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,...

—Nick Hornby

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Moments
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A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionnaire for potential partners, a 2...

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BooksMoviesMusic
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I don’t know you. The only thing I know about you is, you’re reading this. I don’t know if your happy or not; I don’t know whether you’re young or not. I sort of hope...

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Heartbreak
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My companions for the afternoon were affable, welcoming middle-aged men in their late thirties and early forties who simply had no conception of the import of the afternoon for the rest of us. To them...

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Arsenal-FcFootball
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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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BooksMarriageReading
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It would be nice to think that as I’ve got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, females less cruel, skins thicker, reactions sharper, instincts more developed. But there still seems to be...

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BreakupPainYoung-Love
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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.

—Nick Hornby

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Live
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And another way of explaining it is to say that shit happens, and there’s no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.

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DepressionHopelessLife
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You may think that you don’t want to read about the problems of being brought up Mennonite, but the great thing about books is that you’ll read anything a good writer wants you to read.

—Nick Hornby

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ReadingWriters
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Clockers” asks–almost in passing, and there’s a lot more to it than this–a pretty interesting question: if you choose to work for the minimum wage when everyone around you is pocketing thousands from drug deals,...

—Nick Hornby

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…So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is...

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FootballLifeSport
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It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn’t even speak to each other if they met at a party.

—Nick Hornby

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FilmsMusicRelationships
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The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don’t know whether pop music has caused this unhappiness, but I do know that they’ve been listening...

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LifeMusicPop
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I’m human. That’s how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.

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Human-Nature
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easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret.

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Secrets
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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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BooksReading
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There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them.

—Nick Hornby

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About-A-BoyLoveLucky
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You’re seeing someone else, aren’t you?” I denied it, of course. But then, anything – smashing up a new car, persuading Donald Rumsfeld to come to an Islington flat in the early hours of New...

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CheatingHumorLive
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That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity – the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired...

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EmotionsGrowingLife
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