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Nick Hornby quotes

English Writer April 17, 1957

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Nick Hornby quote: "I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone..."
I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door. Nick Hornby
I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's? Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "Books are, let's face it, better than everything else."
Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. Nick Hornby
So, as she walked down the stairs into the club, she was looking forward to a seething, teeming, wriggling, wiggling throng of dancers, many of whom she'd recognize: she wanted to see former pupils, local shopkeepers, museum regulars, all of whom would look at her as if to say, "Here we are! What kept you? Nick Hornby
She stopped typing. If she’d been using pen and paper, she would have screwed the paper up in disgust, but there wasn’t a satisfying equivalent with email, seeing as everything was designed to stop you making a mistake. She needed a fuck-it key, something that made a satisfying ka-boom noise when you thumped it. Nick Hornby
There was an awful lot to be said for familiarity, if you thought about it. It was an extremely underrated virtue, ignorable until the very moment that you were in danger of losing whatever or whoever it was that was familiar. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's..."
This is the second Simply Red song on this tape. One's unforgivable. Two's a war crime. Can I fast-forward? Nick Hornby
I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will. Nick Hornby
What I needed more than anything was a place where unfocused unhappiness could thrive, where I could be still and worry and mope; I had the blues, and when I watched my team I could unwrap them and let them breathe a little. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the..."
The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. Nick Hornby
because dangling your legs over the precipice is nothing unless you're prepared to go that extra two inches, and none of us had been. We could tell each other and ourselves something different -- oh, I would have done it if she hadn't been there or he hadn't been there or if someone hadn't sat on my head -- but that fact of the matter was that we were all still around, and we'd all had ample opportunity not to be. Nick Hornby
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. Nick Hornby
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "Passion was a part of being human."
Passion was a part of being human. Nick Hornby
Nick Hornby quote: "Sitting at the table with the kids, and being told off like a..."
Sitting at the table with the kids, and being told off like a kid, has liberated me; my disenfranchisement has empowered me. Nick Hornby

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