awesomepeoplereading: Nick Hornby reads.
2nd Mar 2012✧22:2431 notes
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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, the books would win pretty much every time."

~   Nick Hornby

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1st Apr 2011✧09:4887 notes

This was a post by Hanna, who has not had cake in a while. She is currently reading 31 Songs by Nick Hornby and creating mixtapes in her head.

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10th Mar 2011✧08:093 notes
wordpainting: hieronyma: I think I’ve posted this before, but it’s worth another go! By the way, great film and book.
2nd Feb 2011✧02:41812 notes
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This was a post by Hanna, who is excited about postcards and packages and a little dog named Bowie.
28th Dec 2010✧01:1016 notes
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"I do feel a kind of anger when I hear a bad record, or when someone is lukewarm about a book that means a lot to me."

~   Fever Pitch, Nick Hornby
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17th Nov 2010✧17:1044 notes

"Maybe the best thing to do with favorite books is to leave them be: to achieve such exalted position means that they entered your life at exactly the right time, in precisely the right place, and those conditions can never be recreated."

~   Nick Hornby
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15th Nov 2010✧22:18113 notes

"I’ve been thinking with my guts since I was fourteen years old, and frankly speaking, between you and me, I have come to the conclusion that my guts have shit for brains."

~   High Fidelity, Nick Hornby
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9th Nov 2010✧20:2834 notes

"Being a reader is sort of like being president, except reading involves fewer state dinners, usually. You have this agenda you want to get through, but you get distracted by life events, e.g., books arriving in the mail/World War III, and you are temporarily deflected from your chosen path."

~   The Polysyllabic Spree, Nick Hornby
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18th Sep 2010✧18:0917 notes
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