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Thinking Quotes by Nick Hornby

17 Thinking quotes by Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby’s musings on the mind are as relatable as his characters, delivering humor and sincerity in equal measure. In 17 brief snippets he captures the everyday mental chatter we all know, offering a comforting reminder that overthinking can be both funny and deeply human.

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There isn't so much to be afraid of, out there. I can remember thinking it was funny to find that out, on…

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She thought I was...soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.

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I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count…

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I couldn’t bear to think about the proper future, so I just tried to make things better for the next twenty minutes…

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I don't think you can call it stalking when it's just phone calls and letters and emails and knocking on the door.

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You'll remember someone who broke your heart, and you'll think to yourself, 'Oh yes, I remember how that feels.' But you can't.

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I was still owed an explanation, I thought, but so what? What good was it going to do me? It wouldn't have…

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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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I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what…

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The truth about autobiographical songs, he realized, was that you had to make the present become the past, somehow: you had to…

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I may not know the weight of those things, but I could feel the weight of that one, so I kept it…

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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we each have…

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I can remember my father gave me a huge history of football for my 12th birthday - I used to read that…

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I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable…

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I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove…

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“I was thinking about you. About how you have to be fairly tough in your head to do what you do." "What?"…

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Asking the head I have now to explain its own thinking is as pointless as dialing your own telephone number on your…

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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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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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