Men Quotes by Nick Hornby

12 Men quotes by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby writes with a conversational tone that feels like a chat over coffee. These 12 reflections on men capture his knack for mixing humor with heartfelt honesty, making the familiar feel freshly examined.

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No man is an island...

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Men use music and football to fill up holes in their lives.

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...self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.

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Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far…

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A man who wants to die feels angry and full of life and desperate and bored and exhausted, all at the same…

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The chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save…

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Why is failure the first thing I think of when I find myself in this sort of situation? Why can't I just…

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Between the ages of fourteen and twenty-four, foreplay changes from being something that boys want to do and girls don't, to something…

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I always thought 'Of Mice and Men' was such a perfect book because there's nothing not to understand, but it's still really…

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I've seen men like you in Doris Day films, but I never thought they existed in real life...The men who can't commit,…

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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…

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I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much…

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You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done…

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…I've had a bad week." What's happened?" Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.

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“When they – I cannot bring myself to use the first-person plural in this instance.”

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“What you don't ever catch a glimpse of on your wedding day - because how could you? - is that some days you will…

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A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem. You've got to kick off…

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I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.

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I never mind the accusations of domesticity, as long as people recognise that all of us, even the luckiest, will live lives in which…

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I wasted the 1980s. I wasted every minute at Cambridge talking to people who knew more about music than I did.

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“I took her outside on to a little roof terrace that looked like it never got the sun at nay time of the day…

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“I feel as though I have been having conversations like this all my life. None of us is young anymore, but what has just…

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“I'm OK. Really. I can find people. I'll be all right.”

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“Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty or thirty…

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“Defansçılar her zaman forvetçilerden daha iyi analizcilerdir.”

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On New Year's Eve he ould make a resolution to recover some his previous scepticism, but until then he would do as the Romans…

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It's no good looking to writers for definitions of what constitutes proper writing, because you will drive yourself crazy, and you won't find anything…

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