"Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat……" — Nick Hornby

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

— Nick Hornby

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212 Quotes by Nick Hornby

Nick Hornby has 212 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time…
Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright…
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to…
Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway.
I have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from…
It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we…

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More Bleakness Quotes

This quote is filed under Bleakness Quotes, one of 10 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:

I tend to foster drama via bleakness. If I want the reader to feel sympathy for a character, I cleave… — George Saunders
The average cooking in the average hotel for the average Englishman explains to a large extent the English bleakness and… — Karel Capek
You know my friends, there comes a time when people get tired of being trampled by the iron feet of… — Martin Luther King, Jr.
Each of us is alone in the world. It takes great courage to meet the full force of your aloneness.… — John O'Donohue
The mix in our rooms is so touching: the clutter and the cracks in the wall belie a bleakness or… — Anne Lamott
And just for a moment I had reached the point of ecstasy that I always wanted to reach, which was… — Jack Kerouac
The church and the whorehouse arrived in the Far West simultaneously. And each would have been horrified to think it… — John Steinbeck
under our love making I felt a bleakness that couldnt be dispelled. The sadness was in both of us, and… — Siri Hustvedt
Grace is the permanent climate of divine kindness; the perennial infusion of springtime into the winter of bleakness. — John O'Donohue

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