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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| 82b8cdd | Being at the top of your career was like being at the top of a Ferris wheel: you knew that you had to keep moving, and you knew which way you were going. You had no choice. | Nick Hornby | ||
| f1f5d9c | Cherez mnogo let do Toni doshlo, chto pisatel' vsegda obrechion na neprikaiannost'. Pochemu-to neprikaiannye chasto stanoviatsia pisateliami. | Nick Hornby | ||
| bdd2feb | Fifteen years was a long time in the life of a woman, though, when those fifteen years had been disappointing. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 114413b | Perhaps he would wake up the next morning realizing that he'd made an utter ass of himself, but there were worse animals than the ass. And in London you saw asses wandering around everywhere. Nobody seemed to mind, much. Dennis had spent an awful lot of time not making an ass of himself, and he didn't have anything to show for it. The | Nick Hornby | ||
| f9941d5 | She and Duncan had ended up together because they were the last two people to be picked for a sports team, and she felt she was better at sports than that. | nick hornby | ||
| 63e61cc | What a terrible thing an education was, he thought, if it produced the kind of mind that despised entertainment and the people who valued it. Edith | Nick Hornby | ||
| 5d400d0 | Sapete com'e quando si hanno dei figli. Di loro si pensa il peggio solo quando non c'e scelta. | italiano | Nick Hornby | |
| 51a95f4 | It is not the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my family a thousand times already. Janet's bedsit seemed enormous when I moved into it, enormous and quiet, but this book is so much bigger than that. And when I've finished it I'll start another one, and that might be even bigger, and then anot.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| cf3d08b | I've been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains. I | Nick Hornby | ||
| 1b2c71a | I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.' 'But we're not. You've confused the two thnigs again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-indulgent... wanker.' 'Thanks. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6d5049a | I can't believe I told you all those things and we've ended up talking about how great I am.' 'But we're not. You've confused the two things again. You're not great. You're a shallow, feckless, self-indulgent... wanker.' 'Thanks. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 531353a | All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I'm beginning to see why people don't do it more often. | sex | Nick Hornby | |
| 3e03525 | to father) Aren't you glad that you've never had to buy vegeterian cookery books as the first small step on the road to getting inside someone's knickers? (father) ...however vegeterian recepies you have read, you still have more fun than we were ever allowed. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 181b3e1 | This is a song by Emmylou Harris called 'Boulder to Birmingham,'" she announces. "It's on the album Pieces of the Sky, which Rob is selling this afternoon for the unbelievable price of five pounds and ninety-nine pence, and you can find it right over there in the 'Country Artists (Female)' section." | Nick Hornby | ||
| 8181afd | Non potevano dare alla gente quel che voleva, se non c'era gente li a ricevere il dono | Nick Hornby | ||
| 4964898 | Sophie was beginning to realize that there was nothing to be done about actors: they would always end up sleeping with each other. They had always done so, and they probably always would. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 0f8ed38 | He was beginning to wonder whether June's facility, and their shared interest, might serve them better in the long run than a passionate sexual relationship that would eventually die on them. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fbe787c | She was so clever, Dennis thought, and so kind, and he found the familiar gloom descend upon him. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 6e18723 | Problema della mia generazione e che ci sentiamo tutti dei geni del cazzo. Far qualcosa per noi non e abbastanza, e neanche vendere qualcosa, o insegnare qualcosa o solamente combinare qualcosa: no, noi dobbiamo essere qualcosa. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 1140063 | Io, voi, non vi conosco. L'unica cosa che so di voi e che state leggendo questa pagina. Non so se siete felici o no; non so se siete giovani o no. Ma... cioe; spero che siete giovani e tristi. Se siete vecchi e felici, mi posso immaginare che magari leggete sotto i baffi leggendo quando dico; Mi ha spezzato il cuore. Ricorderete qualcuno che ha spezzato il cuore a voi, e penserete: Oh si, ricordo come ci si sente. Ma non e vero, vecchi gufi.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c09fef3 | You were going to take me bikini shopping?" "Not me, dear. Patsy. I'm not interested in looking at curvy young women in bikinis. I'm deeply in love with my wife and I'm only interested in money." | Nick Hornby | ||
| 1bbc3a8 | Are o cronica lunara de carte intr-o revista de fitnes pentru barbati si in consecinta este, probabil, cel mai putin citit critic literar din lume. Bineinteles, mai scrie si altceva - din fericire, nu un roman, ci un scenariu, asa ca David poate sa-si exprime compasiunea in loc sa se simta amenintat - , iar impreuna cei doi pot (sau ar putea) sa-si bata joc fericiti atat de filmele groaznice pe care le-au vazut, cat si de romanele cumplite .. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 353b798 | If, during his engagement to Edith, someone had tried to explain how lonely marriage could be, he wouldn't have believed it. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 98f4e41 | you had to do, it seemed, was ask for an inferior version of the life you'd had before and London would give it to you. | Nick Hornby | ||
| fd46abc | not even sex, especially not sex, please God not sex, the filthiest and most terrifying invention of the early seventies. | Nick Hornby | ||
| e20a76e | E' o non e un'ingiustizia che i leader mondiali si facciano strada non grazie alla loro capacita di risolvere problemi globali, ma di addormentarsi a comando? La maggior parte della gente perbene di notte fa fatica a dormire, e a quanto pare e proprio per questo che il mondo e un tale casino. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 59b8916 | if I do OK with women, it's not because of the virtues I have, but because of the shadows I don't have. | Nick Hornby | ||
| bda02da | Sometimes I got so bored of trying to touch her breasts that I would try to touch her between her legs, a gesture that had a sort of self-parodying wit about it: it was like trying to borrow a fiver, getting turned down, and asking to borrow fifty quid instead. These | Nick Hornby | ||
| 530f615 | She had been dumped a couple of years before by a sort of male equivalent to Charlie, a guy called Michael who wanted to be something at the BBC. (He never made it, the wanker, and each day we never saw him on TV or heard him on the radio, something inside us rejoiced.) | Nick Hornby | ||
| 3c9def5 | back in gear, she closed the door on him. She leaned against it, felt the heat drain from her cheek into the cold wood. And then the dog was there with her in the narrow hallway. She smelled the meat on | Nick Hornby | ||
| 874bd27 | Of course, I have never had to take that long walk again, and my ears have not burned with quite the same fury, and I have never had to count the packs of cheap cigarettes in order to avoid mocking eyes and floods of tears...not really, not actually, not as such. It just feels that way, sometimes. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 482f700 | Women who disapprove of men--and there's plenty to disapprove of--should remember how we started out, and how far we have had to travel. 3. | Nick Hornby | ||
| c713cac | It didn't help, reminding herself that if she were back in Blackpool she'd spend the afternoon aching to be in London. It just made her feel that she'd never be happy anywhere. | homesick realistic | Nick Hornby | |
| 41b3f6d | What came first - the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because I listened to the music? Do all those records turn you into a melancholy person? | music nick-hornby | Nick Hornby | |
| 5568b93 | Si, scrivere un libro all'anno e decisamente fattibile: basta buttare giu cinquecento parole al giorno (meno di un quarto di questa rubrica) all'incirca per otto mesi. Ma cosi rimangano soltanto quattro mesi per andare in vacanza, guardare i Mondiali, cazzeggiare su Internet, fare il giudice di premi letterari in localita esotiche, eccetera eccetera. E allora gli scrittori si danno una tabella di marcia molto piu comoda, un libro ogni due o.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 1aac8cb | Forse la cosa migliore da fare, con i film e i libri preferiti, e lasciarli stare: se sono riusciti a esaltarci tanto, significa che sono arrivati nel posto giusto e al momento giusto della nostra vita, e queste sono condizioni che non si ripeteranno mai. Qualche volta ci vien voglia di riprenderli per vedere se sono davvero belli come nel ricordo, ma e un impulso di cui diffidare, perche suppone l'idea che il nostro giudizio critico miglio.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 631fc90 | Ia ne preziraiu klassicheskuiu muzyku za to, chto ee kul'tiviruiut, ia ne snob naiznanku. Mne ona ne nravitsia (ili, po krainei mere, ia k nei ravnodushen) potomu, chto ona zvuchit arkhaichno, za to, chto ona nikak ne kasaetsia chuvstv, sostavliaiushchikh soderzhanie dnia sego, nedeli i vsei zhizni, a eshche ia ne liubliu ee potomu, chto v nei net bek-vokalov, basovykh partii, gitarnykh solo, a eshche potomu, chto mnogie liudi, klianushchie.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| db95eb2 | Liuboi akkord, prosteishii stroitel'nyi material dlia liuboi glupeishei pesenki, v to zhe vremia iavliaetsia prekrasnoi, tainstvennoi i sovershennoi veshch'iu. I kogda polugramotnyi, nekul'turnyi i emotsional'no nesderzhannyi khriak ob'ediniaet neskol'ko akkordov, u nego poiavliaetsia unikal'naia vozmozhnost' sozdat' nechto moshchnoe i prekrasnoe. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 2a0a167 | The problem here is that unless a team is playing well, winning things, filling their stadia, clubs simply cannot afford to alienate the very | Nick Hornby | ||
| e0554ef | Esli vy ne slyshali etu kompozitsiiu i imeete namerenie ee poslushat', zabud'te obo vsekh drugikh delakh na etot vecher, ubedites', chto vy v komnate ne odin (proslushivanie pesni v naushnikakh, skoree vsego, grozit vam gospitalizatsiei), i ne khodite na rabotu na sleduiushchii den'. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 18745ae | Soidemsia na tom, chto samymi dolgovechnymi iavliaiutsia pesni o liubvi. Pesni o rabote tozhe khoroshi. Takzhe pesni o rekakh, o roditeliakh, o dorogakh. Khoroshie pesni o detiakh neobychaino redki (da, slozhno pisat' o chuvstvakh k svoemu rebenku tak, chtoby drugikh ne stoshnilo, no kakim-to zhe obrazom pesenniki nauchilis' vydavat' bezukoriznennye, poroi perekhvatyvaiushchie dykhanie pesni o top-modeliakh, vstrechennykh imi v klubnom tual.. | Nick Hornby | ||
| 88bd4ed | One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it. What | Nick Hornby | ||
| 092b1a9 | Den musik man redan har racker inte en hel livstid, inte om man lyssnar pa musik varje dag och sa fort man kommer at. | music | Nick Hornby | |
| 41bc89e | I'm going to take every chance I get to make a nuisance of myself when somebody I admire is in the vicinity... | Nick Hornby |