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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 62d71de | Do you know," she said, "that was the Ludovisi Altar we liked so much this morning. It's madly famous!" I let her give me a lecture." | Max Frisch | ||
| 30e0563 | Ich kann es nicht ausstehen, wenn man mir sagt, was ich zu empfinden habe; dann komme ich mir, obschon ich sehe, wovon die Rede ist, wie ein Blinder vor. | Max Frisch | ||
| 2cffe64 | POEZIIaTA ni sepva. | Max Frisch | ||
| 41ea58e | Gefuhle am Morgen, das ertragt kein Mann. Dann lieber Geschirr waschen! | Max Frisch | ||
| 00e5151 | aber vor allem: standhalten, dem Licht, der Freude (wie unser Kind als es sang) im Wissen, dass ich erlosche im Licht uber Ginster, Asphalt und Meer, standhalten der Zeit, beziehungsweise Ewigkeit im Augenblick. Ewig sein: gewesen sein. | Max Frisch | ||
| e7f472d | It is important that we are occasionally, perhaps even frequently, depressed by books, challenged by films, shocked by paintings, maybe even disturbed by music. But do they have to do all these things all the time? Can't we let them console, uplift, inspire, move, cheer? | Nick Hornby | ||
| 06472d5 | But I didn't know where I wanted to go. Or what I wanted to do when I got there. I had dreams, but they were vague things with no real substance. I wanted to be famous, or really rich, or wildly successful, but that was as far as the dream went. My whole life was a fill-in-the-blank. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5b0694a | he was home on his own and listening to the sort of music he needed to listen to when he felt like this, music that seemed to find the sore spot in him and press up hard against it... | Nick Hornby | ||
| 03e5e0a | An ideal world in my own home... I'm not yet sure why the prospect appalls me quite so much, but I do know somewhere in me that (he) is wrong, that a life without hatred is no life at all, that my children should be allowed to despise whom they like. Now there's a right worth fighting for... | Nick Hornby | ||
| d934431 | It was easy to be nice to an attractive woman over a dinner table. The despair came later, with children and tiredness and the sheer drudgery of marriage and monogamy. | gossip novelty | Nick Hornby | |
| 2c4297f | Dave and Serge...played the Fiddler's Elbow as if it were Giants Stadium, and even though it was acoustic, they just about blew the place up. They were standing on chairs adn lying on the floor, they were funny, they charmed everyone in the pub apart from an old drunk ditting next to the drum kit...who put his fingers firmly in his ears during Serge's extended harmonica solo. It was utterly bizarre and very moving: most musicians wouldn't h.. | live-band music passion performance reading | Nick Hornby | |
| da626df | I could feel the weight of everything then --- the weight of loneliness, of everything that had gone wrong. I felt heroic, going up those last few flights to the top of the building, dragging that weight along with me. Jumping felt like the only way to get rid of it, the only way to make it work for me instead of against me; I felt so heavy that I knew I'd hit the street in no time. I'd beat the world record for falling off a tower block. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 50ff812 | This, for the benefit of those with only a sketchy grasp of football tactics, was a Dutch invention which necessitated flexibility from all the players on the pitch. Defenders were required to attack, attackers to play in mid-field; it was football's version of post-modernism, and the intellectuals loved it. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6809317 | There was the same need for obscurity, the same suspicion that if a piece of music had reached a large number of people, it had somehow been drained of its worth. | Nick Hornby | ||
| abceacf | Did you know that Jacques Benveniste, one of the world's leading homeopathic "scientists," now claims that you can *email* homeopathic remedies? Yeah, see, what you do is you can take the "memory" of the diluted substance out of the water electromagnetically, put it on your computer, email it, and play it back on a sound card into new water. I mean, that could work, right? (Nick's thoughts after reading Francis Wheen's book "How Mumbo-Jumb.. | francis-wheen homeopathy | Nick Hornby | |
| 93e9883 | Defeated misery is what all sport is about, eventually, if you follow the story for long enough; all sportsmen know this. | sports | Nick Hornby | |
| df5a383 | I can live this life. I can. I can. It's a spark I want to cherish, a splutter of life in the flat battery; but just at the wrong moment I catch a glimpse at the night sky..., and I can see that there's nothing out there at all. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c31706e | We hate Simple Minds. They were no.1 in our Top Five Bands or Musicians who will have to be shot come the musical revolution (Michael Bolton, U2, Bryan Adams, and, surprise surprise, Genesis were tucked in behind them. Berry wanted to shoot The Beatles, but I pointed out that someone had already done it. | simple-minds the-beatles | Nick Hornby | |
| 563b616 | I'm still not a very good white wine, but I'm drinkable - you could put me in a punch, anyway. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 3a3021d | And she liked me. She liked . liked me. She | Nick Hornby | ||
| c8dd942 | The annoying thing about reading is that you can never get the job done. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c8a9b4f | What was in it for me? I wasn't asking for any sort of reciprocation, after all. Why didn't she want her erogenous zones stimulated? I have no idea. All I know is that you could, if you wanted to, find the answers to all sorts of difficult questions buried in that terrible war-torn interregnum between the first pubic hair and the first soiled Trojan. | teenagers | Nick Hornby | |
| 06baa86 | In the old days, when he flew a lot, he'd never been able to get absorbed in a book until the plane had taken off, so he'd spent the pre-boarding time flicking through magazines and browsing in gift shops, and that's what the last couple of decades had felt like: one long flick through a magazine. If he'd known how long he was going to spend in the airport lounge of his own life, he'd have made different travel arrangements, but instead he'.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| bca2b83 | I don't have the heart to tell my sons that the older one gets, the less funny literature becomes--and they would refuse to believe me if I tried to explain that some people don't think jokes even belong in proper books. I won't bother breaking the news that, if they remain readers, they will insist on depressing themselves for about a decade of their lives, in a concerted search of gravitas through literature. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 927decd | Dialogue in the works of autobiography is quite naturally viewed with some suspicion. How on earth can the writer remember verbatim conversations that happened fifteen, twenty, fifty years ago? But 'Are you playing, Bob?' is one of only four sentences I have ever uttered to any Arsenal player (for the record the others are 'How's the leg, Bob?' to Bob Wilson, recovering from injury the following season; 'Can I have your autograph, please?' .. | football | Nick Hornby | |
| e70d8bc | Songwriting is an art distinct from poetry. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 899b206 | When someone uses the phrase 'the prick one', and you know immediately that this is a synonym for the word 'metaphorically', you are entitled to wonder whether you know the speaker too well. You are even entitled to wonder whether you should know her at all. | Nick Hornby | ||
| ceec4f3 | His father fell off a window-ledge. No wonder his mum had cheered up. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 9736039 | I'm thinking: am I supposed to fight, and what do I fight with, and whom am I fighting? | nick hornby | ||
| 3027c7c | Iki haftami ulkenizi dolasarak gecirdim -ulkeniz, cilgin zamanlar mintikasi ve televizyonda surekli bir bicimde ereksiyon sorununu tedavi eden ilaclarin reklaminin yapildigi o ulkeyse eger- bu dergi icin bilgi toplamakla gorevlendirilmis olarak: kirk yedi edebiyatsever, sinir bozucu derecede sakin olmakla beraber yuzu gulmeyen genc adam ve kadindan olusan, her ay bu kosedeki tum iyi esprileri ayiklayan Hece Cumbusu, artik Amerikan okuma ali.. | din ilişkiler ingiltere | Nick Hornby | |
| 3739708 | Most days, for the last dozen or so years, I attributed to Charlie, or at least to our breakup, most things that have gone wrong for me. Like: I wouldn't have packed in college; I wouldn't have gone to work in Record and Tape; I wouldn't have had an unsatisfactory personal life. This is the woman who broke my heart, who ruined my life, this woman is single-handedly responsible for my poverty and directionlessness and failure, the woman I dr.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| ea35e9d | Is the phrase "Deliciously politically incorrect" used with the same gay abandon in the U.S.? You come across it all the time here, and it usually means, quite simply, that a book or a movie or a TV program is racist and/or sexist and/or homophobic; there is a certain kind of cultural commentator who mysteriously associates these prejudices with a Golden Age during which we were allowed to do a lot of things that we are not allowed to do no.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e797fce | And what are we saying, anyway? That only old money is allowed to buy success? Isn't that a little like telling Noel and Liam Gallagher that they aren't allowed to make anything of themselves because they didn't go to Eton? | Nick Hornby | ||
| f64142d | The trouble with influential books is that if you have absorbed the influence without ever reading the original, then it can sometimes be hard to appreciate the magnitude of its achievement. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 7f31af1 | Years later, Tony would discover that writers never felt they belonged anywhere. That was one of the reasons they became writers. It was strange, however, failing to belong even at a party full of outsiders. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 9bbfba5 | I see now that dismissing YA books because you're not a young adult is a little bit like refusing to watch thrillers on the ground that you're not a policeman or a dangerous criminal...The world suddenly seems a larger place. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 35c04cf | You're my easy life option. The moment you stop being that, you're no option at all. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e7850e5 | This, really, is the bottom line, the chief attraction of the opposite sex for all of us, old and young, men and women: we need someone to save us from the sympathetic smiles in the Sunday-night cinema queue, someone who can stop us from falling down into the pit where the permanently single live with their mums and dads. I'm not going back there again; I'd rather stay in for the rest of my life than attract that kind of attention. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 013ecd4 | To me, making a tape is like writing a letter--there's a lot of erasing and rethinking | Nick Hornby | ||
| 28cb5a8 | Zionists exploited, exaggerated, invented, or even perpetrated "anti-Semitic" incidents both to procure support and to drive Jews to immigrate to the Zionist-designated homeland. A few examples are discussed below." | Alison Weir | ||
| 7106ee8 | If only the Fates had granted him a longer stay in this | Alison Weir | ||
| f091f7c | There can have been no doubt in Eleanor's mind as to what was expected of her as a wife. In her day, women were supposed to be chaste both inside and outside marriage, virginity and celibacy being highly prized states. When it came to fornication, women were usually apportioned the blame, because they were the descendants of Eve, who had tempted Adam in the Garden of Eden, with such dire consequences. Women, the Church taught, were the weak.. | equality history promiscuity purity sexism sexuality virginity | Alison Weir | |
| 96b86ff | Often, little brother, there is no smoke without fire. | smoke-and-fire troubles | Alison Weir | |
| d95de0b | Giraldus claimed that he had heard about Eleanor's adultery with Geoffrey from the saintly Bishop Hugh of Lincoln, who had learned of it from Henry II of England, Geoffrey's son and Eleanor's second husband. Eleanor was estranged from Henry at the time Giraldus was writing, and the king was trying to secure an annulment of their marriage from the Pope. It would have been to his advantage to declare her an adulterous wife who had had carnal .. | annulment divorce eleanor-of-aquitaine history infidelity royalty | Alison Weir |