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Nick Hornby je britský spisovatel, esejista, editor a fanoušek fotbalového klubu Arsenal FC. Žije v londýnském Highbury . Oblíbenými tématy jeho humorně laděných knih jsou muži, hudba a fotbal. Wikipedia  

✵ 17. duben 1957  •  Další jména نیک هورن‌بای
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„Samota je nemoc – pacienti bývají slabí, důvěřiví, slabomyslní.“

Nick Hornby

Zdroj: HORNBY, Nick. Julie, demoverze. Praha: BBart, 2010. Str. 167.

„Láska je stejně nedemokratická jako peníze.“

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Nick Hornby: Citáty anglicky

“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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Nick Hornby

“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

Zdroj: About a Boy

“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

Zdroj: About a Boy

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

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Zdroj: About a Boy

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

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Nick Hornby kniha How to Be Good

Zdroj: How to Be Good

“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 kniha A Long Way Down

Zdroj: A Long Way Down

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

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Nick Hornby kniha The Polysyllabic Spree

Zdroj: The Polysyllabic Spree

“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 kniha The Polysyllabic Spree

Zdroj: The Polysyllabic Spree

“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 kniha How to Be Good

Zdroj: How to Be Good

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

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Nick Hornby kniha High Fidelity

Zdroj: High Fidelity

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

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Nick Hornby kniha A Long Way Down

&quot;The Relation of Dress to Art,&quot; 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">Zdroj: 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

Zdroj: About a Boy

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

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Nick Hornby kniha High Fidelity

Varianta: It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
Zdroj: High Fidelity

“No man is an island…”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Zdroj: About a Boy

“… 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 kniha High Fidelity

Zdroj: High Fidelity

“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 kniha Songbook

Zdroj: Songbook

“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 kniha High Fidelity

Zdroj: High Fidelity

“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 kniha How to Be Good

Zdroj: How to Be Good

“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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Nick Hornby kniha How to Be Good

Zdroj: How to Be Good

“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 kniha Juliet, Naked

Zdroj: Juliet, Naked

“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”

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Nick Hornby kniha How to Be Good

Zdroj: How to Be Good

“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 kniha High Fidelity

Zdroj: High Fidelity

“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 kniha Juliet, Naked

Zdroj: Juliet, Naked

“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 kniha High Fidelity

Zdroj: High Fidelity

“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 kniha A Long Way Down

Zdroj: A Long Way Down

“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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Nick Hornby

Zdroj: Not A Star

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