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Nick Hornby is a British novelist, screenwriter, and essayist.
* He was born in Redhill, Surrey, England in 1957.
* He studied English literature at the University of Cambridge.
* After graduating, he worked as a teacher and a journalist.
* His first novel, Fever Pitch, was published in 1992.
* It was a critical and commercial success, and was adapted into a film in 1997.
* Hornby has since written several more novels, including High Fidelity, About a Boy, and A Long Way Down.
* His work has been praised for its sharp humor, insightful observations on modern life, and love of music.
* He is a popular and critically acclaimed author, and his books have been translated into over 30 languages.

It's no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently or if your favorite films wouldn't even speak to each other if they met at a party.

Nick Hornby

Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign, but in the real world, it isn't.

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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

You don't ask people with knives in their stomachs what would make them happy; happiness is no longer the point. It's all about survival; it's all about whether you pull the knife out and bleed to death or keep it in...

Nick Hornby

It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.

Nick Hornby

Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

Nick Hornby

There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

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