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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.

— Nick Hornby Songbook (2003)

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More quotes by Nick Hornby

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.

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)

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