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Nick Hornby Quotes

I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn’t something I’m very good at Picture Quote #1

I’m simply pointing out that what happens to us isn’t the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we’re not together Picture Quote #1

I don’t even feel as if I’m the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I’m the center of anyone else’s? Picture Quote #1

That was his mother. When she wasn’t crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself Picture Quote #1

You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong Picture Quote #1

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you Picture Quote #1

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I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again Picture Quote #1

I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids Picture Quote #1

Record stores can’t save your life. But they can give you a better one Picture Quote #1

Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game’s aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear Picture Quote #1

I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn’t have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it’s going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn’t have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn’t want that Picture Quote #1

A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they’ve all let him down Picture Quote #1

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I’d stay there, or not, and I’d eat, or not, and I’d drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn’t do wouldn’t matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think Picture Quote #1

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 and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not Picture Quote #1

That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short Picture Quote #1

Sometimes you know you’ve got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn’t so messed up, it wouldn’t be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn’t Picture Quote #1

The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning Picture Quote #1

You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it’s just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who’d believe in this character then? Picture Quote #1

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And we’d had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because 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 Picture Quote #1

I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. 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. I suppose it’s why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible Picture Quote #1

And it isn’t that I’m so unhappy I don’t want to live anymore. That’s not what it feels like. It feels more like I’m tired and bored and the party’s gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn’t seem to be anything to look forward to, so I’d rather call it a day Picture Quote #1

Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I’m not one of them. This is my life, and it’s nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it Picture Quote #1

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 to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives Picture Quote #1

... You can find people. It’s like those acrobatic displays... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn’t really matter who they are, as long as they’re there and you don’t let them go away without finding someone else Picture Quote #1

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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it’s hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

Each day was a bad day, but he survived by kidding himself that each day was somehow unconnected to the day before Picture Quote #1

These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, and this was why he had been so sure that falling in love was rubbish, and, surprise surprise, it was rubbish, and... And it was too late Picture Quote #1

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I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn’t something I’m very good at (Nick Hornby Quotes) I’m simply pointing out that what happens to us isn’t the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we’re not together (Nick Hornby Quotes) I don’t even feel as if I’m the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I’m the center of anyone else’s? (Nick Hornby Quotes) That was his mother. When she wasn’t crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself (Nick Hornby Quotes) You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong (Nick Hornby Quotes) You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you (Nick Hornby Quotes) I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes or so, over and over again (Nick Hornby Quotes) I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which we have our hearts broken, suffer the loss of loved ones, worry ourselves half to death about our kids (Nick Hornby Quotes) Record stores can’t save your life. But they can give you a better one (Nick Hornby Quotes) Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game’s aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear (Nick Hornby Quotes) I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn’t have made me any happier. It was like scratching when you have chicken pox. You think it’s going to help, but the itch moves over, and then moves over again. My itch suddenly felt miles away, and I couldn’t have reached it with the longest arms in the world. Realizing that made me scared that I was going to be itchy forever, and I didn’t want that (Nick Hornby Quotes) A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same time; he wants to fight everyone, and he wants to curl up in a ball and hide in a cupboard somewhere. He wants to say sorry to everyone, and he wants everyone to know just how badly they’ve all let him down (Nick Hornby Quotes) I’d stay there, or not, and I’d eat, or not, and I’d drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn’t do wouldn’t matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think (Nick Hornby Quotes) 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 and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not (Nick Hornby Quotes) That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile and a tear and a wave. Everyone has learned, found love, seen the error of their ways, discovered the joys of monogamy, or fatherhood, or filial duty, or life itself. In my day, people got shot at the end of films, after learning only that life is hollow, dismal, brutish, and short (Nick Hornby Quotes) Sometimes you know you’ve got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn’t so messed up, it wouldn’t be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn’t (Nick Hornby Quotes) The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to take a feeling or a friend or a woman and turn whatever it was into something that was over, so that you could be definitive about it. You had to put it in a glass case and look at it and think about it until it gave up its meaning (Nick Hornby Quotes) You need as much ballast as possible to stop you from floating away; you need people around you, things going on, otherwise life is like some film where the money ran out, and there are no sets, or locations, or supporting actors, and it’s just one bloke on his own staring into the camera with nothing to do and nobody to speak to, and who’d believe in this character then? (Nick Hornby Quotes) And we’d had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because 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 (Nick Hornby Quotes) I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it to myself. 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. I suppose it’s why you feel so far away from everyone, in the end; anything you can think of to tell them just ends up making them feel terrible (Nick Hornby Quotes) And it isn’t that I’m so unhappy I don’t want to live anymore. That’s not what it feels like. It feels more like I’m tired and bored and the party’s gone on too long and I want to go home. I feel flat and there doesn’t seem to be anything to look forward to, so I’d rather call it a day (Nick Hornby Quotes) Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I’m not one of them. This is my life, and it’s nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it (Nick Hornby Quotes) 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 to the sad songs longer than they’ve been living the unhappy lives (Nick Hornby Quotes) ... You can find people. It’s like those acrobatic displays... Those ones when you stand on top of loads of people in a pyramid. It doesn’t really matter who they are, as long as they’re there and you don’t let them go away without finding someone else (Nick Hornby Quotes) Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it’s hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time in their lives when they thought about whether they really wanted to wake up the next day. Wanting to die seems like it might be a part of being alive (Nick Hornby Quotes) 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 (Nick Hornby Quotes) Each day was a bad day, but he survived by kidding himself that each day was somehow unconnected to the day before (Nick Hornby Quotes) These feelings were exactly what he had been so afraid of, and this was why he had been so sure that falling in love was rubbish, and, surprise surprise, it was rubbish, and... And it was too late (Nick Hornby Quotes)

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