"Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as……" — Nick Hornby
"Love, it turns out, is as undemocratic as money, so it accumulates around people who have plenty of it already: the sane, the healthy, the lovable."
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212 Quotes by Nick Hornby
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Most people get suicide, I guess; most people, even if it's hidden deep down inside somewhere, can remember a time…
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Radio football is football reduced to its lowest common denominator. Shorn of the game's aesthetic pleasures, or the comfort of…
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Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth.
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[H]ow was I supposed to get excited about the oppression of females if they couldn't be trusted to stay upright…
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One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to…
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Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination.
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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 have always been accused of taking the things I love – football, of course, but also books and records…
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Life isn't, and has never been, a 2-0 home victory after a fish and chip lunch.
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Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point…
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I have learned things from the game. Much of my knowledge of locations in Britain and Europe comes not from…
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It is a strange paradox that while the grief of football fans(and it is real grief) is private - we…
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Nothing in education is so astonishing as the amount of ignorance it accumulates in the form of inert facts.
— Henry Adams
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Every tradition grows continually more venerable, and the more remote its origins, the more this is lost sight of. The…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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The man of meditation becomes the man of understanding because his energy accumulates. He is not wasting it. He is…
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If a man is after money, he's money mad; if he keeps it, he's a capitalist; if he spends it,…
— Unknown Author
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Now is the only time. How we relate to it creates the future. In other words, if we're going to…
— Pema Chodron
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As capital accumulates, the lot of the laborer must grow worse.
— Karl Marx
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Wealth accumulates, and men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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As individuals, as families, as neighbors, as members of one community, people of all races and political views are usually…
— Dean Koontz
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Steven Erikson is an extraordinary writer. I read Gardens of the Moon with great pleasure. And now that I have…
— Stephen R. Donaldson
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Where wealth accumulates, men decay.
— Oliver Goldsmith
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Broken Window Theory: Consider a building with a few broken windows. If the windows are not repaired, the tendency is…
— James Q. Wilson
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