Nick Hornby Quotes - Page 5

• Cynicism is our shared common language, the Esperanto that actually caught on, and though I'm not fluent in it - I like too many things, and I'm not envious of enough people - I know enough to get by.

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  People, Esperanto, Common

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• He visto hombres como tú en las películas de Doris Day, pero nunca pensé que existieran en la vida real... Los hombres que no pueden comprometerse, que no pueden decir "te quiero" incluso cuando quieren, que empiezan a toser y a tartamudear y cambian de tema. Pero aquí estás tú. Un espécimen vivo, que respira. Increíble.

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  Break Up, Breakup, Real

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• [...] 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.

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  Beautiful, Falling In Love, Intelligent

  Nick Hornby (2005). “About a Boy”, p.148, Penguin UK

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• Unhappiness really meant something back then. Now it's just a drag, like a cold or having no money.

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  Cold, Unhappiness, Drag

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.9, Penguin UK

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• Tuve que alimentar esas dudas como si fueran gatitos diminutos y enfermizos, hasta que con el tiempo se convirtieron en quejas robustas y sanas, con sus propias puertas de gato, que les permitían entrar y salir de nuestra conversación a voluntad.

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  Cat, Doors, Healthy

  Nick Hornby (2005). “High Fidelity”, p.17, Penguin UK

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• Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

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  Self, Lasts, Firsts

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• The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.

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  Manifestation, Combustion

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

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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.

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  Baby, Differences, Mug

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• What you don't catch a glimpse of on your wedding day- because how could you?- is that some days you will hate your spouse, that you will look at him and regret ever exhchanging a word with him, let alone a ring and bodily fluids.

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  Regret, Hate, Glimpse

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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.

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  People, Tiny, Want

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

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• Just because it's a relationship, and it's based on soppy stuff, it doesn't mean you can't make intellectual decisions about it. Sometimes you just have to, otherwise you'll never get anywhere. That's where I've been going wrong. I've been letting the weather and my stomach muscles and a great chord change in a Pretenders single make up my mind for me, and I want to do it for myself.

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  Mean, Weather, Decision

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• You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

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  Book, Say Anything, Knowing God

  "A Long Way Down (Movie Tie-In)". Book by Nick Hornby, June 7, 2005.

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• Oye, gran idea: si tienes hijos, regala a tu pareja vales de lectura las próximas Navidades. Cada vale da derecho a dos horas de lectura *mientras los niños están despiertos*. Puede parecer un regalo barato, pero los padres sabrán apreciar que, en términos reales, cuesta más que un Lamborghini.

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  Christmas, Real, Reading

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

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• Yes, yes, I know all the jokes. What else could I have expected at Highbury? But I went to Chelsea and to Tottenham and to Rangers, and saw the same thing: that the natural state of a football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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  Football, Disappointment, Fans

  Nick Hornby (2005). “Fever Pitch”, p.14, Penguin UK

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• An official statement from Liverpool raised the spectre of a future where 'a club's rival can bring about a significant ban for a top player without anything beyond an accusation'. But on hearing this, many Manchester United fans would have been asking for a definition of the word 'rival'.

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  Player, Rivals, Clubs

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• I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from school, but from away games or the sports pages, and hooliganism has given me both a taste for sociology and a degree of fieldwork experience. I have learned the value of investing time and emotion in things I cannot control, and of belonging to a community whose aspirations I share completely and uncritically.

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  Sports, School, Europe

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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.

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  Water, Trying, Want

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• That is another chamber of my heart that shows no electrical activity - the chamber that used to flicker into life when I saw a film that moved me, or read a book that inspired me, or listened to music that made me want to cry. I closed that chamber myself, for all the usual reasons. And now I seem to have made a pact with some philistine devil: if I don't attempt to re-open it, I will be allowed just enough energy and optimism to get through a working day without wanting to hang myself.

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  Book, Heart, Optimism

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• Where would David Copperfield be if Dickens had gone to writing classes? Probably about seventy minor characters short, is where. (Did you know that Dickens is estimated to have invented thirteen thousand characters? Thirteen thousand! The population of a small town!)

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  Writing, Character, Class

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

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• I burst into tears and I cry and cry until it feels as though it is not salt and water being squeezed from my eyes, but blood.

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  Ojo, Sangre, Agua

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• Siempre se me ha acusado de tomarme demasiado en serio las cosas que me gustan -el fútbol, por supuesto, pero también los libros y los discos-, y siento una especie de rabia cuando oigo un disco malo, o cuando alguien se muestra tibio con un libro que significa mucho para mí. Tal vez fueron esos hombres desesperados y amargados de la tribuna oeste del Arsenal los que me enseñaron a enfadarme de esa manera; y tal vez por eso me gano la vida en parte como crítico; tal vez son esas voces las que oigo cuando escribo. Eres un WANKER, X.' '¿El premio Booker? ¿EL PREMIO BOOKER? Deberían dármelo por tener que leerte.

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  Football, Book, Writing

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• I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them!

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  Smart, Book, People

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• Entre los catorce y los veinticuatro años, los juegos preliminares pasan de ser algo que los chicos quieren hacer y las chicas no, a algo que las mujeres quieren y los hombres no se molestan en hacer. ... La pareja perfecta, en mi opinión, es la de la mujer Cosmo y el chico de catorce años.

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  Girl, Men, Boys

  Nick Hornby (1996). “High Fidelity”, p.23, Penguin

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• I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.

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  Thinking, Phones, Doors

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• So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is going well, one book leads to another and to another, a paper trail of theme and meaning; and how, when it's going badly, when books don't stick or take, when your mood and the mood of the book are fighting like cats, you'd rather do anything but attempt the next paragraph, or reread the last one for the tenth time.

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  Book, Reading, Cat

  Nick Hornby (2006). “The complete polysyllabic spree”

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