Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 10

• We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did not find the odor entirely repellent.

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  Animal, Tanks, Odor

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.18, Penguin

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• 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.

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  Football, People, Attractive

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.173, Penguin UK

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• Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.

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  Emotional, Self, Dubious

  Nick Hornby (2003). “Songbook”, p.49, Penguin

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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, and homeless people who've read Pauline Kael, and wah-wah pedals, and English potato chip flavors, and I haven't even read Martin Chuzzlewit yet... There's plenty out there.

  Nick Hornby

  Girl, Real, Hard Times

  "A Long Way Down". Book by Nick Hornby, May 7, 2005.

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• I'd thought I'd live with my wife, but I couldn't find one.

  Nick Hornby

  Wife, My Wife

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• Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.

  Nick Hornby

  Hurt, Phones, Years

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• Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

  Nick Hornby

  Reading, Book, Ideas

  "This much I know". Interview with Simon Garfield, www.theguardian.com. April 19, 2008.

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