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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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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.
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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.
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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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Do you ever do that thing where you lie in bed and you can't sleep so you end up writing out recent conversation you've had? So they look like a play?' Well you should. It's fun. I keep them. Look through them, sometimes.
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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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Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.
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We're here for such a short amount of time. Why do we spend any of it building sandcastles?
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The truth will set you free. Either that or it'll get you a punch in the nose.
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When even the scrupulously detached BBC is exhorting us to talk to God, you know something is going on.
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The natural state of the football fan is bitter disappointment, no matter what the score.
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Self-pity is an ignoble emotion, but we all feel it, and the orthodox critical line that it represents some kind of artistic flaw is dubious, a form of emotional correctness.
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I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand.
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I'd stay there, or not, and I'd eat, or not, and I'd drink, or not, and go home, or not, and what I did or didn't do wouldn't matter to anyone at all. And I walked for most of the day. Do people get sad on holiday sometimes? I can imagine they do, having all that time to think.
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One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.
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I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like The Unbearable Lightness of Being and Love in the Time of Cholera, and I think I’ve understood them. They’re about girls, right? Just kidding. But I have to say my all-time favorite book is Johnny Cash’s autobiography Cash by Johnny C
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You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.
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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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I fell in love with football as I was later to fall in love with women: suddenly, inexplicably, uncritically, giving no thought to the pain or disruption it would bring with it.
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When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.
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