Nick Hornby: Frasi in inglese

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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.”

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“It struck him that how you spent Christmas was a message to the world about where you were in life, some indication of how deep a hole you had managed to burrow for yourself”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy

“You had to live in your own bubble. You couldn't force your way into someone else's, because then it wouldn't be a bubble any more.”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy

“You wouldn't believe that so much could change just because a relationship ended.”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy

“So now what? What happens when words fail us?”

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Nick Hornby libro Come diventare buoni

Origine: How to Be Good

“The non-fiction bestseller lists frequently prove that we all want to know more about everything, even if we didn't know that we wanted to know - we're just waiting for the right person to come along and tell us about it.”

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“And mostly all I have to say about these songs is that I love them, and want to sing along to them, and force other people to listen to them, and get cross when these other people don't like them as much as I do.”

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“The outward manifestations of an inner combustion are never very directed.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

Origine: A Long Way Down

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else.”

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Nick Hornby libro The Polysyllabic Spree

Origine: The Polysyllabic Spree

“Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring against the best that any other art form had to offer, then books would win pretty much every time.”

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Nick Hornby libro The Polysyllabic Spree

Origine: The Polysyllabic Spree

“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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Nick Hornby libro Come diventare buoni

Origine: How to Be Good

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

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Nick Hornby libro Non buttiamoci giù

"The Relation of Dress to Art," The Pall Mall Gazette http://www.gutenberg.org/files/14062/14062-h/14062-h.htm (February 28, 1885) <br class="br">reprinted in Aristotle at Afternoon Tea:The Rare Oscar Wilde (1991) <br class="br">Origine: A Long Way Down

“[…] 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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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy

“What really matters is what you like, not what you are like”

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Variante: It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
Origine: High Fidelity

“No man is an island…”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Origine: About a Boy

“… 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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Nick Hornby libro Alta fedeltà

Origine: High Fidelity

“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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Nick Hornby libro Songbook

Origine: Songbook

“To me, making a tape is like writing a letter – there's a lot of erasing and rethinking and starting again, and I wanted it to be a good one.”

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“It's music rage, which is like road rage, only more righteous. When you get road rage, a tiny part of you knows you're being a jerk, but when you get music rage, you're carrying out the will of God, and God wants these people dead”

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