Frases de Nick Hornby
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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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“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.”

“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.”

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

“A vantagem de estar deprimido é poder se comportar tão mal quanto você quiser.”

“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.”

Nick Hornby: Frases em inglês

“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

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“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

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

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

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Nick Hornby livro How to Be Good

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“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 livro A Long Way Down

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

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Nick Hornby livro The Polysyllabic Spree

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“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 livro The Polysyllabic Spree

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“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 livro How to Be Good

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“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

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Nick Hornby livro A Long Way Down

"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">Fonte: 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

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

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

Variante: It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
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“No man is an island…”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

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“… 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 livro High Fidelity

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“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 livro Songbook

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“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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“I guess I should have forgotten about it ages ago, but forgetting isn't something I'm very good at.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“It's love this and love that but of couse it's so easy to love someone you don't know, whether it's George Clooney or Monkey. Staying civil to someone with whom you've ever shared Christmas turkey- now there's a miracle.”

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Nick Hornby livro How to Be Good

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“Phone 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.”

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“But then, that was the trouble with relationships generally. They had their own temperature and there was no thermostat.”

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Nick Hornby livro Juliet, Naked

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“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”

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Nick Hornby livro How to Be Good

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“You have to work at relationships. You can’t just walk out on them every time something goes wrong.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“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.”

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Nick Hornby livro Juliet, Naked

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“Barry, you're over thirty years old. You owe it to your mum and dad not to sing in a group called Sonic Death Monkey.”

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Nick Hornby livro High Fidelity

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“I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.”

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Nick Hornby livro A Long Way Down

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“When you get older, it feels like happy memories and sad memories are pretty much the same thing. It is all just emotion in the end. And any of it can make you weep.”

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Fonte: Not A Star