Quotes by Nick Hornby, High Fidelity

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my friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost. — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
The unhappiest people I know, romantically speaking, are the ones who like pop music the most; and I don't know whether — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
I used to think--and given the way we ended up, maybe I still do--that all relationships need the kind of violent shove — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry pro — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
A while back, when Dick and Barry and I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you are like, Barry p — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
But I want to see Clara, Charlie's friend, who's right up my street. I want to see her because I don't know where my str — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
This time, something different happens, though. It’s the daydreaming that does it. I’m doing the usualthing—imagining in — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable L — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Look at all the things that can go wrong for men. There’s the nothing-happening-at-all problem, the too-much-happening-t — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
One day, maybe not in the next few weeks, but certainly in the conceivable future, someone will be able to refer to me w — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Women who disapprove of men - and there's plenty to disapprove of - should remember how we started out, and how far we h — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Have you got any soul?" a woman asks the next afternoon. That depends, I feel like saying; some days yes, some days no. — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
It would be nice to think that as I've got older times have changed, relationships have become more sophisticated, femal — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
People worry about kids playing with guns, and teenagers watching violent videos; we are scared that some sort of cultur — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
What came first – the music or the misery? Did I listen to the music because I was miserable? Or was I miserable because — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
A good compilation tape, like breaking up, is hard to do. You've got to kick off with a corker, to hold the attention (I — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
The Beatles were bubblegum cards and Help at the Saturday morning cinema and toy plastic guitars and singing 'Yellow Sub — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
Read any women's magazine and you'll see the same complaint over and over again: men - those little boys ten or twenty o — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
when she removed my hand from her chest for the one hundred thousandth time. Attack and defense, invasion and repulsion. — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity
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 — Nick Hornby, High Fidelity