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That's the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.

That’s the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away.
– Nick Hornby

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  1. I’m human. That’s how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. – Nick Hornby
  2. Don’t be fretting…about me marrying. Marrying’s a trouble and not marrying’s a trouble and I sticks to the trouble I knows. – LM Montgomery
  3. I hate time. It never does what you want it to. – Nick Hornby
  4. I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. – Nick Hornby
  5. We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too. – Nick Hornby
  6. You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God. – Nick Hornby
  7. I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. – Nick Hornby
  8. There were about seventy-nine squillion people in the world, and if you were very lucky, you would end up being loved by fifteen or twenty of them. – Nick Hornby
  9. Women who disapprove of men – and there’s plenty to disapprove of – should remember how we started out, and how far we had to travel. – Nick Hornby
  10. 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. – Nick Hornby
  11. All my life I wanted to go to bed with an American, and now I had, and I’m beginning to see why people don’t do it more often. – Nick Hornby
  12. I’ve committed to nothing…and that’s just suicide…by tiny, tiny increments. – Nick Hornby
  13. Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. – Nick Hornby
  14. She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything – Nick Hornby
  15. It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. – Nick Hornby
  16. That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all. – Nick Hornby
  17. I’m still pretty sick about what I’ve lost, but I only admit it to myself late at night, which is probably why I’m not the best sleeper. – Nick Hornby
  18. Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. – Nick Hornby
  19. That’s why; he’s worried about how his life is turning out, and he’s lonely, and lonely people are the bitterest of them all – Nick Hornby
  20. What good were real feelings anyway? – Nick Hornby
  21. If I could have all of those things, I wouldn’t mind if I touched her or not. – Nick Hornby
  22. For the first time, but certainly not the last, I began to believe that Arsenal’s moods and fortunes somehow reflected my own – Nick Hornby
  23. easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. – Nick Hornby
  24. Even thought our problems had driven us up there, it was as if they had somehow, like Daleks, been unable to climb the stairs. – Nick Hornby
  25. Every second around this girl was asking for trouble and he’d never wanted to be in trouble so bad in his life. – Cindi Madsen
  26. His smile was sexy and warned of trouble, but I’d made up my mind that not all trouble was bad. – Becca Fitzpatrick
  27. Today is a really bad day, Syd. A really, really bad day. Sometimes in life, we need a few bad days in order to keep the good ones in perspective – Colleen Hoover
  28. Trouble and perplexity drive me to prayer, and prayer drives away perplexity and trouble. – Elizabeth George
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  30. If you’re in trouble, or hurt or need – go to the poor people. They’re the only ones that’ll help – the only ones. – John Steinbeck
  31. The trouble with discarding bad memories was that evidently the good ones went with them – Anne Tyler
  32. The nicest veterans in Schenectady, I thought, the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who’d really fought. – Kurt Vonnegut Jr
  33. You said one day you would come back for usThe ones that believed in youThe ones that asked you into their heartsThe ones that served you – April Nichole
  34. We should all realize that we can only talk about the bad forgeries, the ones that have been detected; the good ones are still hanging on the walls – Frank Wynne
  35. When you fail, get hurt, feel bad, but act on it! Everybody fails, but the ones who act are the ones who change the world! – Vishwas Mudagal
  36. Everyone has adventures in their lives. Some good ones, some bad ones. – Sarah Todd Hammer
  37. Every time we mention God we become theologians, and the only question is whether we are going to be good ones or bad ones. – JI Packer
  38. We are all theologians, either good ones or bad ones. I’d rather be a good one. Wouldn’t you? – Randy Alcorn
  39. I swear that I will never cause trouble for anybody, as long as I live!! So please! Nobody cause any trouble for me, either!! – Minoru Furuya
  40. When good people consider you the bad guy, you develop a heart to help the bad ones. You actually understand them. – Criss Jami

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