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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

[-] 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

In Bruce Springsteen songs, you can either stay and rot, or you can escape and burn. — Nick Hornby

It's not what you like but what you are like that's important. — Nick Hornby

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 drink? — Nick Hornby

I decided, on the spot, to let God into my heart, in the hope that my newfound faith can somehow be used as a vicious weapon in the marital war. — Nick Hornby

Self-consciousness is a man's worst enemy. — Nick Hornby

Taking your husband's name when you became his wife was one thing. Taking your town's name when you became its beauty queen was something else again. — 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

I can't tell you how good and bad I felt. Yes I can: I felt like a baked Alaska. — Nick Hornby

How come every squitty little shitty snotty bastard knows my name? — Nick Hornby

Like all books that have that kind of momentum, it starts from word of mouth. — Nick Hornby

Is that thing actually going round? I can't tell — Nick Hornby

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 am cowed - by her intelligence, and her ferocity, and the way she's always right. Or at least, she's always right enough to shut me up. 5. — Nick Hornby

I have made myself more complicated than I really am. — Nick Hornby

It's just that romance, with its dips and turns and glooms and highs, its swoops and swoons and blues, is a natural metaphor for music itself — 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

I don't want my books to exclude anyone, but if they have to, then I would rather they excluded the people who feel they are too smart for them! — Nick Hornby

Of course things like that complicate life, and there are all kinds of
readjustments to think about, battles to fight and lines to draw. — 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

It's no wonder we're all such a mess, is it? We're like Tom Hanks in Big. Little boys and girls trapped in adult bodies and forced to get on with it. — Nick Hornby

A beautiful woman combining the prospect of happiness and nakedness in the same spoken sentence could achieve the power of the greatest lyric poetry. — Nick Hornby

I've committed to nothing ... and that's just suicide ... by tiny, tiny increments. — 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

It's not reading and whatever that makes you good or bad. It's whether you rape people, or get addicted to crack and go out mugging. — Nick Hornby

I'm ashamed, thinking back Not about the lies I'm used to lying now
No, I'm ashamed of how pathetic it all was. — Hornby Nick

No one's stopping you," said Jess. "But you've got to make it more interesting. That's why why we drift off and talk about biscuits. — Nick Hornby

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

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. — Nick Hornby

She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him. — Nick Hornby

Is it possible to want to divorce a man simply because he doesn't want to be rude about Ginger Spice? I rather fear it might be. — Nick Hornby

She wanted to be given a funny script so that she could make it funnier. — Nick Hornby

You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all. — Nick Hornby

Record stores can't save your life. But they can give you a better one. — Nick Hornby

I'm thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting? — Nick Hornby

I'm a writer. Life is supposed to pass me by, while I watch it. — Nick Hornby

The artistic temperament is particularly unhelpful if it is just that, with no end product. — Nick Hornby

We get together with people because they're the same or because they're different, and in the end we split with them for exactly the same reasons. — 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

Sometimes you can see car crashes from a long way off, if the road is straight and both vehicles are heading towards each other in the same lane. — Nick Hornby

I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's? — 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

I'm still pretty sick about what I've lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I'm not the best sleeper. — 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

But the internet had changed everything: nobody was forgotten anymore. — 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

The trouble with history, it seems to me, is that there are too many people involved. — Nick Hornby

Was everything an accident of geography? — Nick Hornby

It's brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. — Nick Hornby

Read anything, as long as you can't wait to pick it up again. — 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

She of all people knows what compilation tapes represent. — Nick Hornby

Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. — 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

Easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. — Nick Hornby

Why should we be denied basic human rights just because we've messed up our relationships? — Nick Hornby

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic. — Nick Hornby

Oh, it was a complicated business, loving art. It involved a lot more ill will than one might have suspected. — Nick Hornby

What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. — 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

You can wait forever for the muse to sit on your shoulder, but most of the time you know what has to be done and inspiration is not going to help you. — Nick Hornby

Needless to say, drink, drugs, food, and sex played no part in the festivities. But who needs any of that when you've got literature? — 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. — 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

Does that help? Probably not, unless you are sane enough to believe that the truth about anyone is disappointing, the truth about me especially so. — Nick Hornby

He really liked this woman. Or, rather, he was really attracted to her, and nothing she had said so far had weakened the attraction. — 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