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Nick Hornby quotes - page 5
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.
Nick Hornby
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.
Nick Hornby
I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.
Nick Hornby
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.
Nick Hornby
When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.
Nick Hornby
I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.
Nick Hornby
He's at the chocolate teapot end of the competency scale.
Nick Hornby
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
...I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.
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.
Nick Hornby
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
Nick Hornby
What really matters is what you like, not what you are like.
Nick Hornby
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.
Nick Hornby
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.
Nick Hornby
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."
Nick Hornby
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