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Nick Hornby - Bilingual quotes that celebrate the beauty of language, showcasing meaningful expressions in two unique perspectives.
Nick Hornby is a renowned author known for his engaging writing style and exploration of themes like relationships, music, and obsession. His narratives often delve into the lives of flawed characters, allowing readers to connect with their struggles and aspirations. Hornby’s passion for music and sports frequently finds its way into his work, making his stories relatable and vibrant. One of his most celebrated novels, "High Fidelity," follows a record store owner who reflects on his past relationships while trying to figure out what he really wants in life. This book, along with others like "About a Boy" and "Fever Pitch," showcases Hornby's signature blend of humor and poignancy. His ability to capture the essence of modern life has earned him a dedicated readership. In addition to fiction, Hornby has written essays and screenplays, showcasing his versatility as a writer. His contributions to literature, particularly in the realm of contemporary fiction, have solidified his place as an influential voice. Through his works, Hornby continues to explore the complexities of human emotions, making his stories resonate with a wide audience. Nick Hornby is a renowned author known for his engaging writing style and exploration of themes like relationships, music, and obsession. His narratives often delve into the lives of flawed characters, allowing readers to connect with their struggles and aspirations. Hornby’s passion for music and sports frequently finds its way into his work, making his stories relatable and vibrant. One of his most celebrated novels, "High Fidelity," follows a record store owner who reflects on his past relationships while trying to figure out what he really wants in life. This book, along with others like "About a Boy" and "Fever Pitch," showcases Hornby's signature blend of humor and poignancy. His ability to capture the essence of modern life has earned him a dedicated readership. In addition to fiction, Hornby has written essays and screenplays, showcasing his versatility as a writer. His contributions to literature, particularly in the realm of contemporary fiction, have solidified his place as an influential voice. Through his works, Hornby continues to explore the complexities of human emotions, making his stories resonate with a wide audience.
See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I'm looking for someone, and before I know it I'vefound her.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
See, records have helped me to fall in love, no question. I hear something new, with a chord change that melts my guts, and before I know it I'm looking for someone, and before I know it I'vefound her.
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel.
What harm has he ever done to you?''You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
What harm has he ever done to you?''You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.
I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
I had to nurture those doubts as if they were tiny, sickly kittens, until eventually they became sturdy, healthy grievances, with their own cat doors, which allowed them to wander in and out of our conversation at will.
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
Nick Hornby Not A Star
When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.
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 way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
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 way, you get an engaged signal. Or your own answer message, if you have that kind of phone system.
And I don't know what difference it made, this sudden flash. It wasn't like I wanted to, you know, grab life in a passionate embrace and vow never to let it go until it let go of me. In a way, it makes things worse, not better. Once you stop pretending that everything's shitty and you can't wait to get out of it, which is the story I'd been telling myself for a while, then it gets more painful, not less. Telling yourself life is shit is like an anesthetic, and when you stop taking the Advil, then you really can tell how much it hurts, and where, and it's not like that kind of pain does anyone a whole lot of good.
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
And I don't know what difference it made, this sudden flash. It wasn't like I wanted to, you know, grab life in a passionate embrace and vow never to let it go until it let go of me. In a way, it makes things worse, not better. Once you stop pretending that everything's shitty and you can't wait to get out of it, which is the story I'd been telling myself for a while, then it gets more painful, not less. Telling yourself life is shit is like an anesthetic, and when you stop taking the Advil, then you really can tell how much it hurts, and where, and it's not like that kind of pain does anyone a whole lot of good.
I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.
Nick Hornby A Long Way Down
I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?
Nick Hornby Fever Pitch
But what else can we do when we're so weak? We invest hours each day, months each year, years each lifetime in something over which we have no control; it is any wonder then, that we are reduced to creating ingenious but bizarre liturgies designed to give us the illusion that we are powerful after all, just as every other primitive community has done when faced with a deep and apparently impenetrable mystery?
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 pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.
Nick Hornby High Fidelity
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 pretty dull way to spend an evening, but I'm not one of them. This is my life, and it's nice to be able to wade in it, immerse your arms in it, touch it.
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she'd spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she'd ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?
Nick Hornby Juliet, Naked
Everyone disliked their partners at some time or another, she knew that. But she'd spent her hours in the dark wondering whether she'd ever liked him. Would it really have been so much worse to spend those years alone? Why did there have to be someone else in the room while she was eating, watching TV, sleeping?
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 High Fidelity
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.
It takes a child to say the unsayable.
Nick Hornby How to Be Good
It takes a child to say the unsayable.
It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.
Nick Hornby How to Be Good
It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.
Nick Hornby How to Be Good
Phone calls like ours only happen when you've spent several years hurting and being hurt, until every work you utter or hear becomes coded and loaded, as complicated and full of subtext as a bleak and brilliant play.
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 Songbook
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
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