Nick Hornby Quotes
born 1957 England
Nicholas Peter John "Nick" Hornby (born 17 April 1957) is an English novelist, essayist, lyricist, and screenwriter.
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Also known as: About a Boy (book), Fever Pitch, Songbook
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Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.
Songbook (2003)
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.
Songbook (2003)
What if a sense of humour is like hair — something a lot of man lose as they get older?
How to Be Good (2001)
Then I lost it. Kinda lost it all, you know. Faith, dignity, about fifteen pounds.
High Fidelity (1995)
And another way of explaining it is that shit happens, and there's no space too small, too dark and airless and fucking hopeless, for people to crawl into.
A Long Way Down (2005)
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.
Fever Pitch (1992)
I’ve been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and, frankly, I think my guts have shit for brains.
High Fidelity (1995)
I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
Fever Pitch (1992)
By the early seventies I had become an Englishman — that is to say, I hated England just as much as half my compatriots seemed to do.
Fever Pitch (1992)
Indeed, there is a moment on the first CD — the electrifying opening to "I Got Loaded," which sounds like an R&B standard but isn’t — when you might find yourself asking whether anyone who has ever been smitten by pop music can fail to have his heart stopped by the chords, the swing, and, once again, Steve Berlin’s wonderfully greasy sax.
I couldn't get the mood back; it was as if one of the kids had woken up just as Cindy and I were starting to make love. I hadn't changed my mind, and I still knew that I'd have to do it sometime. It's just that I knew I wasn't going to be able to do it in the next five minutes.
A Long Way Down (2005)