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Kind Quotes by Nick Hornby
- Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
- I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and…
- But I suspect that all writers come up with premises of some kind, fragments of narrative or scenarios, in the course of a working week.
- We had no irony when it came to girls, though. There was just no time to develop it. One moment they weren't there, not in…
- 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…
- I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove that a crush…
- I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.
- I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and…
- contemporary poetry is a kind of Reykjavik, a place where accessibility and intelligence have been fighting a Cold War by proxy for the last half-century.
- He loved Nirvana, but at his age they were kind of a guilty pleasure. All that rage and pain and self-hatred! Will got a bit...fed…
- Over the last couple of years, the photos of me when I was a kid... well, they've started to give me a little pang or…
- And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments,…
- [about suicide] And why is it the biggest sin of all? All your life you're told that you'll be going to this marvellous place when…
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- I tell my students, it's not difficult to identify with somebody like yourself, somebody next door who looks like you. What's more… — Chinua Achebe
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