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I love the detail about the workings of the human heart and mind that only fiction can provide - film can't get in close enough.

Nick Hornby

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Nick Hornby
Age: 67
Born: 1957
Born: April 17
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Nicholas Peter John Hornby
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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.
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Maybe we all live life at too high a pitch, those of us who absorb emotional things all day, and as mere consequence we can never feel merely content: we have to be unhappy, or ecstatically, head-over-heels happy, and those states are difficult to achieve within a stable, solid relationship.
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...So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.
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People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos we are scared that some sort of culture of violence will take them over. Nobody worries about kids listening to thousands - literally thousands - of songs about broken hearts and rejection and pain and misery and loss.
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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the Arts and Lit non-fiction section) I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey.
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What harm has he ever done to you?' 'You know what harm he's done me. He offended me with his terrible taste.
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You just have to smile and take it, otherwise it would drive you mad.
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...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.
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I miss him like one might miss a scar, or wooden leg, something disfiguring but characteristic.
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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 a crowd that feels the same way as you, or the sense of security that you get when you see that your defenders and goalkeeper are more or less where they should be, all that is left is naked fear.
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[...] falling in love with someone beautiful and intelligent and the rest of it, then feeling like a blank twit put you at something of a disadvantage.
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I lost the plot for a while then. And I lost the subplot, the script, the soundtrack, the intermission, my popcorn, the credits, and the exit sign.
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You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.
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Sentimental music has this great way of taking you back somewhere at the same time that it takes you forward, so you feel nostagic and hopeful all at the same time.
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That was his mother. When she wasn't crying over the breakfast cereal, she was laughing about killing herself.
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Where's the superficial? I was, and therefore am, dim, gloomy, a drag, unfashionable, unfanciable, and awkward. This doesn't seem like superficial to me. These aren't flesh wounds. These are life-threatening thrusts into the internal organs.
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I really don't want to be boring, and so many books are so boring!
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…I've had a bad week. What's happened? Nothing's happened. I've had a bad week in my head, is all.
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Sometimes we have to be judged by our one-offs.
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One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.
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