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Nick Hornby é um escritor inglês. Em seu trabalho ele utiliza frequentemente esportes, música, e as personalidades obsessivas de suas personagens principais. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. Abril 1957  •  Outros nomes نیک هورن‌بای
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Nick Hornby Frases famosas

“Nos preocupamos por as crianças estarem brincando com armas e os adolescentes vendo filmes violentos; temos medo de que eles se tornem violentos. Ninguém se preocupa com as crianças escutam milhares de músicas sobre corações partidos, rejeição, dor, sofrimento e perda.”

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“Sarcasmo e compaixão são as duas qualidades que fazem a vida na terra tolerável.”

Nick Hornby livro Songbook

Sarcasm and compassion are two of the qualities that make life on earth tolerable.
Nicholas Hornby, também conhecido como Nick Hornby, in: "Songbook"; Por Nick Hornby; Publicado por Riverhead Books, 2003; ISBN 1573223565, 9781573223560; 224 páginas; página 123.

“Difícil é tentar me recompor, peça por peça, sem livro de instruções e nenhuma pista de onde todos os pedaços importantes devem ser colocados.”

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“Todo mundo sabe como falar, e ninguém sabe o que dizer.”

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“A vida pode ser dramática para qualquer um; não é preciso ser viciado em drogas ou poeta para experimentar sentimentos extremos. Você apenas precisa amar alguém.”

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Nick Hornby: Frases em inglês

“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 livro How to Be Good

Fonte: 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 livro High Fidelity

Fonte: 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 livro A Long Way Down

Fonte: A Long Way Down

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

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Nick Hornby livro A Long Way Down

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“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

Fonte: 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 livro High Fidelity

Fonte: 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

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“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

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“One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me without using the word 'arse' somewhere in the sentence.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

Fonte: High Fidelity

“For the best part of 40 years she had genuinely believed that not doing things would somehow prevent regret, when, of course, the exact opposite was true.”

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Nick Hornby livro Juliet, Naked

Fonte: Juliet, Naked

“In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!”

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Nick Hornby livro The Polysyllabic Spree

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“You know that things aren't going well for you when you can't even tell people the simplest fact about your life, just because they'll presume you're asking them to feel sorry for you.”

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“I don't even feel as if I'm the center of my own world, so how am I supposed to feel as though I'm the center of anyone else's?”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“The truth about life was that nothing ever ended until you died, and even then you just left a whole bunch of unresolved narratives behind you.”

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Nick Hornby livro Juliet, Naked

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“There 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.”

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Nick Hornby livro Slam

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“So it's not about what you do. It can't be, can it? It has to be about how you are, how you love, how you treat yourself and those around you, and that's where I get eaten up.”

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Nick Hornby livro Juliet, Naked

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“I'm human. That's how humans spend their time, doing shitty things.”

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Nick Hornby livro How to Be Good

Fonte: How to Be Good

“The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Fonte: About a Boy

“It's just that none of us had the wit or talent to make them into songs. We made them into life, which much messier, and more time consuming, and leaves nothing for anybody to whistle.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“I suddenly had a little epiphany: all the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal.”

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Nick Hornby livro The Polysyllabic Spree

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“She thought I was… soulful, by which I think she means that I don't say much and I always look vaguely pissed off.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.”

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Nick Hornby livro Housekeeping vs. The Dirt

Fonte: Housekeeping vs. the Dirt

“It is 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.”

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Nick Hornby livro How to Be Good

Fonte: How to Be Good

“One has so many more opinions about what has gone wrong than about what is perfect.”

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Nick Hornby livro Songbook

Fonte: 31 Songs

“… So please, be tolerant of those who describe a sporting moment as their best ever. We do not lack imagination, nor have we had sad and barren lives; it is just that real life is paler, duller, and contains less potential for unexpected delirium.”

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Nick Hornby Fever Pitch

Fonte: Fever Pitch