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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.
— Nick Hornby
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[-] writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers.
— Nick Hornby
Maybe nobody went to see the Rolling Stones here in 1964,' said Ros. 'The dead shark was just too much fun.
— Nick Hornby
Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy.
— Nick Hornby
We can't go on apologizing all our lives, you know.
— Nick Hornby
The anger was clearly real, though. It was in there, sloshing around, looking for the nearest hole to escape through.
— Nick Hornby
Is that thing actually going round? I can't tell
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The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.
— Nick Hornby
Passion was a part of being human.
— Nick Hornby
In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of This is me!
— Nick Hornby
I have made myself more complicated than I really am.
— Nick Hornby
If I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have.
— Nick Hornby
I've spent nearly thirty years listening to people sing about broken hearts, has it helped me any? Has it fuck.
— Nick Hornby
But enough already of what grammarians will recognize as the third conditional: if + pluperfect + would.
— Nick Hornby
Some of it can, of course. The new satirical shows
— Nick Hornby
We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.
— Nick Hornby
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
— Nick Hornby
People go on about the first time being important, but it's the second time that really matters. Or the second person, anyway.
— Nick Hornby
I hope that when people are happy together, it feels as though someone keeps piling seconds and thirds on their plates.
— Nick Hornby
Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.
— Nick Hornby
If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it.
— Nick Hornby
There's no doubt that he's the biggest sports star in the world now. (on David Beckham) — Nick Hornby
Definitely avoid going out with ugly girls who say they want to be models. Not because they're ugly, but because they're mad.
— Nick Hornby
I'm ashamed, thinking back Not about the lies I'm used to lying nowNo, I'm ashamed of how pathetic it all was. — Hornby Nick
That's why; he's worried about how his life is turning out, and he's lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all
— Nick Hornby
Sitting at the table with the kids, and being told off like a kid, has liberated me; my disenfranchisement has empowered me.
— Nick Hornby
I have a really low boredom threshold.
— Nick Hornby
Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.
— Nick Hornby
She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him.
— Nick Hornby
I'm thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting?
— Nick Hornby
The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product.
— Nick Hornby
Will wrestled with his conscience, grappled it to the ground and sat on it until he couldn't hear a squeak out of it.
— Nick Hornby
And she liked me. She liked me. She liked me. She liked me. Or at least, I think she did. I think she did. Etc.
— Nick Hornby
I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
— Nick Hornby
I want to be a well-rounded human being with none of these knotty lumps of rage and guilt and self-disgust.
— Nick Hornby
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.
— Nick Hornby
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?
— Nick Hornby
And now here Annie was, allowing her day to become gloriously colored by a communication from a man she'd never even met.
— Nick Hornby
She thought I was ... soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.
— Nick Hornby
Vulnerable, messed-up, inadequate
— Nick Hornby
It's easier to have parents if you've got a girlfriend.
— Nick Hornby
I have measured out my life in Arsenal fixtures, and any event of any significance has a footballing shadow.
— Nick Hornby
I hate time. It never does what you want it to.
— Nick Hornby
Was everything an accident of geography?
— Nick Hornby
I wanted to hurt her, on this day of all days, just because it's the first time since she left that I've been able to.
— Nick Hornby
My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.
— Nick Hornby
I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.
— Nick Hornby
Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships?
— Nick Hornby
Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected.
— Nick Hornby
Books are, let's face it better then everything else
— Nick Hornby
I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.
— Nick Hornby
You had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you'd had before and London would give it to you.
— Nick Hornby
Seeing as he wasn't very bright, I was pretty sure that he was going to be good at fighting.
— Nick Hornby
Nobody should have children just because it made the photo library on the computer more interesting.
— Nick Hornby
Complaining about boring football is a little like complaining about the sad ending of King Lear: it misses the point somehow.
— Nick Hornby
Everything's complicated, even those things that seem flat in their bleakness or sadness.
— Nick Hornby
I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.
— Nick Hornby
Anyone who thinks text messages are funny isn't going to kill himself. There isn't enough going on internally.
— Nick Hornby
It was hopeless, life, really. It was set up all wrong.
— Nick Hornby