He has the personality of a child prodigy, but no discernable talent.
Nick HornbyPhone 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 HornbyIt seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Nick HornbyStichwörter: love poetry humanity heroin
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.
Nick HornbyThere are many differences between a baby and an I-Pod. And one of the biggest is, no ones going to mug you for your baby.
Nick HornbyI 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 HornbyHow do people, like, not curse? How is it possible? There are these gaps in speech where you just have to put a "fuck." I'll tell you who the most admirable people in the world are: newscasters. If that was me, I'd be like, "And the motherfuckers flew the fucking plane right into the Twin Towers." How could you not, if you're a human being? Maybe they're not so admirable. Maybe they're robot zombies.
Nick HornbyStichwörter: expletives swearing
If you really wanted to mess me up, you should have got to me earlier.
Nick HornbyStichwörter: high-fidelity-nick-hornby
All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.
Nick HornbyStichwörter: individuality books identity
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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