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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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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“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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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“Even bad times have good things in them to make you feel alive.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“When you're unhappy, I guess everything in the world - reading, eating, sleeping - has something buried somewhere inside it that just makes you unhappier.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“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.”

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Nick Hornby libro Come diventare buoni

Origine: How to Be Good

“There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy (1998), Ch. 3

“One could argue that most of the trouble in the world is caused by introspection.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“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.”

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“Most people have a rope that ties them to someone, and that rope can be short or it can be long. (Be long. Belong. Get it?) You don't know how long, though. It's not your choice.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“I'm a good person. In most ways. But I'm beginning to think that being a good person in most ways doesn't count for anything very much, if you're a bad person in one way.”

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“I don't believe in Heaven or anything. But I want to be the kind of person that qualifies for entry anyway.”

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Nick Hornby libro Come diventare buoni

Origine: How to Be Good

“my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.”

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“When your sad--like really sad--you only want to be with other people who are sad.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“Human beings are millions of things in one day.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“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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Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Origine: Fever Pitch (1992)

“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”

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“This thing about looking for someone less different… It only really worked, he realized, if you were convinced that being you wasn't so bad in the first place.”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy

“Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated.”

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“I have always been accused of taking the things I love - football, of course, but also books and records - much too seriously, and I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me.”

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Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Origine: Fever Pitch