Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a s…

Nick Hornby
205 citations
Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.
Life Time
29

More Author Quotes

It is the act of reading itself that I miss, the opportunity to retreat further and further from the world until I have found some space, some air that isn't stale, that hasn't been breathed by my fa … ▶
And we'd had this stupid scene on the street, and even that was kind of cool, because sometimes it's moments like that, real complicated moments, absorbing moments, that make you realize that even ha … ▶
We were little animals, which is not to imply that by the end of the week we were tearing our tank tops off; just that, metaphorically speaking, we had begun to sniff each other's bottoms, and we did … ▶
I'm very good at the past. It's the present I can't understand. ✨ Nick Hornby (1996). High Fidelity, p.95, Penguin
We can't be as good as we'd want to, so the question then becomes, how do we cope with our own badness?

Not for the first time in my life, and certainly not for the last, a self-righteous gloom had edged out all semblance of logic.

More Author Quotes

Most Cited Authors

The Best Quotes

Most Liked Authors

Curated Author Quotes