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Way Quotes by Nick Hornby
- Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of a crowd that feels the…
- I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records – much too seriously, and…
- 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.
- 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'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very…
- Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and…
- ...I feel as though I made a face and the wind changed, and now I have to go through life grimacing in this horrible way.
- That’s the thing with the young these days, isn’t it? They watch too many happy endings. Everything has to be wrapped up, with a smile…
- I had forgotten that Jess felt about long words the way that racists feel about black people: she hated them, and wanted to send them…
- 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…
- We spent all those years talking about stuff we had in common, and the last few months noticing all the ways we were different and…
- I'm coming to London next week, by the way, in unhappy circumstances. Are we getting on fine as we are? Or would you like a…
- So this is supposed to be about the how, and when, and why, and what of reading -- about the way that, when reading is…
- Why does reading freak people out so much? Sure, I could be pretty anti-social when we were on the road, but if I was playing…
- Tuesday night I reorganized my record collection. I often do this at periods of emotional stress. There are some people who would find this a…
- She was trying to say something else; she was trying to say that the inability to articulate what one feels in any satisfactory way is…
- You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.
- One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed…
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