Nick Hornby quotes - page 3

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on Earth tolerable. (Nick Hornby)
Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time. View quote
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I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. View quote
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If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier. View quote
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Telling me I can do anything I want is like pulling the plug out of the bath and then telling the water it can go anywhere it wants. Try it, and see what happens. View quote
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We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and it broke both of our hearts. View quote
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For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true. View quote
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The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you. View quote
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic. View quote
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There are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby. View quote
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So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up. (Nick Hornby)
The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point. View quote
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I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. View quote
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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. View quote
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One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect. View quote
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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 paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium. View quote
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It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself. View quote
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You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more. View quote
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So now what? What happens when words fail us? View quote
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The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed. View quote
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What went wrong? Nothing and everything. (Nick Hornby)
[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage. View quote
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No man is an island... View quote
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... I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way. View quote
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It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead. View quote
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