Nick Hornby Quotes

• You wouldn’t believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.

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• Read anything, as long as you can’t wait to pick it up again.

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• When your sad–like really sad–you only want to be with other people who are sad.

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• How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name?

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• Have you got any soul? a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. A few days ago I was right out; now I’ve got loads, too much, more than I can handle. I wish I could spread it a bit more evenly, I want to tell her, get a better balance, but I can’t seem to get it sorted. I can see she wouldn’t be interested in my internal stock control problems though, so I simply point to where I keep the soul I have, right by the exit, just next to the blues.

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• We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too.

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• In other words, it’s one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of this is me!

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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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• 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.

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• Funny + sad is what I’m pitching for, every time.

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• 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.

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• Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

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  Books are, let’s face it better than everything else.

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• You know what is the worst thing about being rejected? The lack of control. If I could only control the where and how of being dumped, it wouldnt seem as bad.

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• We can’t be as good as we’d want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

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• The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.

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• Sequels are very rarely a good idea, and in any case, the success of the book changed my relationship with the club in some ways.

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• Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator.

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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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• Everything’s complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.

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Nick Hornby (20)

Birth:	17th April, 1957
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Editor, Lyricist, Novelist, Writer

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