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Nick Hornby quotes

English Writer April 17, 1957

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Nick Hornby quote: "I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but..."
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at. Nick Hornby
Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your own telephone: Either way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then..."
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness? Nick Hornby
Surely we all occasionally buy books because of a daydream we're having--a little fantasy about the people we might turn into one day, when our lives are different, quieter, more introspective, and when all the urgent reading, whatever that might be, has been done. We never arrive at that point, needless to say.... Nick Hornby
Tucker, please put him down," said Annie. "You're frightening Jackson."He's not," said Jackson. "It's cool. I don't like that guy anyway. Punch him, Dad. Nick Hornby
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! Nick Hornby
Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just enjoy myself? But if you have to ask the question, then you know you're lost: self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. Already I'm wondering whether she's as aware of my erection as I am... Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt..."
I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska. Nick Hornby
I hate calling him T-Bone. It sets my teeth on edge, like when you have to ask for a Big Heap Buffalo Billburger, when all you want is a quarter-pounder, or a Just Like Mom Used to Make, when all you want is a piece of apple pie. Nick Hornby
The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. The other day I was in a bookstore flicking through a book called something like 1001 Books You Must Read Before You Die (and, without naming names, you should be aware that the task set by the title is by definition impossible, because at least four hundred of the books suggested would kill you anyway), but reading begets reading--that's sort of the point of it, surely?--and anybody who never deviates from a set list of... Nick Hornby
... when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion... it was as if breasts were little pieces of property that had been unlawfully annexed by the opposite sex - they were rightfully ours and we wanted them back. Nick Hornby
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-too-soon problem, the dismal-droop-after-a-promising-beginning problem; there’s the size-doesn’t-matter-except-in-my-case problem, the failing-to-deliver-the-goods problem…and what do women have to worry about? A handful of cellulite? Join the club. A spot of I-wonder-how-I-rank? Ditto. Nick Hornby
I'd never really had arguments like this before, arguments I couldn't understand properly, arguments where both sides were right and wrong all at the same time. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty..."
I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the..."
I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway. Nick Hornby

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