Frases de Nick Hornby
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Nick Hornby es un escritor británico, nacido el 17 de abril de 1957 en Redhill, Surrey.

Profesor de literatura inglesa licenciado en Cambridge, empezó colaborando como periodista en publicaciones como The Sunday Times, The Independent y como crítico de música para The New Yorker. Suyas son novelas de éxito como Alta fidelidad, Un gran chico y Fiebre en las gradas entre otras. Esta última novela ganó el premio William Hill Sports Book of the Year en 1992. Alta fidelidad fue llevada al cine por Stephen Frears. Wikipedia

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Frases célebres de Nick Hornby

“A la mayoría de la gente le cabe en la cabeza el suicidio, supongo; la mayoría de la gente, aunque lo tenga muy oculto en lo más profundo de sí misma, puede recordar alguna vez en la vida en la que pensó si realmente quería despertar a la mañana siguiente. Querer morir parece una parte de estar vivo.”

Nick Hornby libro En picado

A Long Way Down

“¿Qué fue primero: la música o la tristeza? ¿Me dio por escuchar música porque estaba triste? ¿O es que estaba triste porque escuchaba música? ¿No te convierten todos esos discos en una persona de tendencia melancólica?
Hay quien se preocupa, y mucho, de que los niños pequeños jueguen con armas de fuego, de que los adolescentes vean vídeos en los que la violencia es moneda corriente; nos da miedo que esa esa especie de cultura de la violencia termine por tragárselos como si tal cosa. A nadie le preocupa en cambio que los niños escuchen miles, literalmente miles de canciones que tratan siempre de corazones destrozados, de rechazos y abandonos, de dolor, tristeza, pérdida. Las personas más desgraciadas que yo he conocido, románticamente hablando, son las que tienen un desarrollado gusto por la música pop. Y no sé si la música pop es la causante de esta infelicidad, pero sí tengo muy claro que han escuchado esas canciones infelices desde hace más tiempo del que llevan viviendo una vida más o menos infeliz. Así de claro.”

Nick Hornby libro Alta fidelidad

High Fidelity

“Más aún que eso, estaba como de costumbre a la espera de que el Arsenal me enseñase que las cosas no siempre van a peor, que las malas rachas terminan tarde o temprano, que se puede cambiar de hábitos, que no es posible perder muchos partidos seguidos".”

“A veces hemos de ser juzgados por nuestros actos únicos.”

Nick Hornby libro How to Be Good

How to Be Good

“Una vez más, el fútbol como metáfora.”

“La música sentimental tiene la especial cualidad de llevarte hacia atrás en el tiempo a la vez que te lleva hacia delante, y por eso te sientes nostálgico y esperanzado a la vez.”

Nick Hornby libro Alta fidelidad

High Fidelity

“Marcus tenía razón, por supuesto, pero tener razón no servía de nada si el resto del mundo estaba equivocado”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

About a Boy

“Ella pasó por una especie de Kramer contra Kramer en su día. Ya sabes, una de esas chaladuras presuntuosas en las que uno trata de averiguar quién demonios es.

- ¿Y al final averiguó quién era?

- No, no lo creo. Dudo mucho que alguien llegue a saber quién es de verdad, ¿no te parece?”

Nick Hornby About a Boy

About a Boy

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“No es bueno pretender que cualquier relación tenga futuro si sus colecciones de discos discrepan violentamente o si sus películas favoritas ni siquiera se hablarían en una fiesta.”

Nick Hornby: Frases en inglés

“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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: 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

Fuente: About a Boy

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

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Nick Hornby libro How to Be Good

Fuente: 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 libro En picado

Fuente: A Long Way Down

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

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Nick Hornby libro The Polysyllabic Spree

Fuente: 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 libro The Polysyllabic Spree

Fuente: 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 libro How to Be Good

Fuente: How to Be Good

“What went wrong? Nothing and everything.”

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fidelidad

Fuente: High Fidelity

“Consistency is the last refuge of the unimaginative.”

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Nick Hornby libro En picado

"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">Fuente: 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

Fuente: About a Boy

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

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Nick Hornby libro Alta fidelidad

Variante: It's not what you like but what you are like that's important.
Fuente: High Fidelity

“No man is an island…”

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Nick Hornby About a Boy

Fuente: 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 libro Alta fidelidad

Fuente: 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 libro Songbook

Fuente: 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 libro Alta fidelidad

Fuente: 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 libro How to Be Good

Fuente: 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 libro How to Be Good

Fuente: 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 libro Juliet, Naked

Fuente: Juliet, Naked

“It takes a child to say the unsayable.”

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Nick Hornby libro How to Be Good

Fuente: 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 libro Alta fidelidad

Fuente: 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 libro Juliet, Naked

Fuente: 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 libro Alta fidelidad

Fuente: 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 libro En picado

Fuente: 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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Fuente: Not A Star