Nick Hornby Quotes

• Las tiendas de discos no pueden salvarte la vida. Pero pueden darte una mejor.

  Nick Hornby

  Giving, Records, Stores

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• Todos los libros que poseemos, tanto los leídos como los no leídos, son la máxima expresión de nosotros mismos que tenemos a nuestra disposición. ... Pero con cada año que pasa, y con cada compra caprichosa, nuestras bibliotecas son cada vez más capaces de articular quiénes somos, tanto si leemos los libros como si no.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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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.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Self, Expression

  Nick Hornby (2004). “The Polysyllabic Spree”, McSweeneys Books

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• It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.

  Nick Hornby

  Importante

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.291, Penguin

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• Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.

  Nick Hornby

  Alive, Bad Times, Good Things

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• It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself

  Nick Hornby

  Romance, Dip, Metaphor

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.52, Penguin

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• Everyone knows how to talk, and no one knows what to say.

  Nick Hornby

  Long Way Down, Know How, Knows

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• It's a mystery of human chemistry and I don't understand it, some people, as far as their senses are concerned, just feel like home.

  Nick Hornby

  Home, People, Chemistry

  "High Fidelity". www.imdb.com. 2000.

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• People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Song, Pain

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.36, Penguin

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• It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Boys, Adults

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.262, Penguin

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• 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.

  Nick Hornby

  Hopeful, Way, Sentimental

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.74, Penguin

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• Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

  Nick Hornby

  Book, Important, Trying

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• Durante una parte alarmantemente grande de un día normal, soy un imbécil.

  Nick Hornby

  Average, Fever Pitch, Moron

  "Fever Pitch". Book by Nick Hornby, 1992.

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• What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person?

  Nick Hornby

  Music, Records, Firsts

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• De nada sirve pretender que cualquier relación tiene futuro si vuestras colecciones de discos discrepan violentamente o si vuestras películas favoritas ni siquiera se dirigirían la palabra si se encontraran en una fiesta.

  Nick Hornby

  Relación, Novio, Marido

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.128, Penguin

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• Cuando te haces mayor, parece que los recuerdos felices y los tristes son prácticamente lo mismo. Al final, todo son emociones. Y cualquiera de ellas puede hacerte llorar.

  Nick Hornby

  Memories, Emotion, Ends

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• I love the relationship that anyone has with music ... because there's something in us that is beyond the reach of words, something that eludes and defies our best attempts to spit it out. ... It's the best part of us probably.

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  Music, Elude, Spit

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

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• He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.

  Nick Hornby

  Children, Personality, Talent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.40, Penguin UK

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• The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

  Nick Hornby

  Needs, Dramatic, Being Human

  "How does it feel to be a woman? First, the Good News..." by Tim Adams, www.theguardian.com. May 27, 2001.

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• Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.

  Nick Hornby

  Ties, Long, People

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• Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable.

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  People, Healthy, Lovable

  Nick Hornby (2005). “How to be Good”, p.214, Penguin UK

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• Because music, like color, or a cloud, is neither intelligent nor unintelligent - it just is. The chord, the simplest building block for even the tritest, silliest chart song, is a beautiful, perfect, mysterious thing, and when an ill-read, uneducated, uncultured, emotionally illiterate boor puts a couple of them together, he has every chance of creating something wonderful and powerful. All I ask of music is that is sounds good.

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  Beautiful, Song, Couple

  Nick Hornby (2003). “31 songs”, Viking Books

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• Entonces perdí la trama durante un rato. Y perdí la subtrama, el guión, la banda sonora, el intermedio, mis palomitas, los créditos y la señal de salida.

  Nick Hornby

  Plot, Popcorn, Credit

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.34, Penguin

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• 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

  World, Feels, My Own

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.299, Penguin

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• We all spend so much time not saying what we want, because we know we can't have it. And because it sounds ungracious, or ungrateful, or disloyal, or childish, or banal. Or because we're so desperate to pretend that things are OK, really, that confessing to ourselves they're not looks like a bad move. Go on, say what you want. ... Whatever it is, say it to yourself. The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose. Surviving in whatever life you're living means lying, and lying corrodes the soul, so take a break from the lies for just one minute.

  Nick Hornby

  Lying, Moving, Mean

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