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You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

You’re not allowed to say anything about books because they’re books, and books are, you know, God.
– Nick Hornby

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  1. We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they’re badly read, too. – Nick Hornby
  2. I hate time. It never does what you want it to. – Nick Hornby
  3. I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900. – Nick Hornby
  4. I personally find that for domestic purposes, the Trivial Pursuit system works better than Dewey. – Nick Hornby
  5. 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
  6. 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
  7. 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
  8. 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
  9. I’ve committed to nothing…and that’s just suicide…by tiny, tiny increments. – Nick Hornby
  10. Experience, then, was something that enabled you to do nothing with a clear conscience. Experience was an overrated quality. – Nick Hornby
  11. She regretted the explanation immediately, but that was because she always regretted everything – Nick Hornby
  12. It’s brilliant, being depressed; you can behave as badly as you like. – Nick Hornby
  13. 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
  14. 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
  15. Reciprocation was a pretty powerful stimulant to the imagination. – 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. What good were real feelings anyway? – Nick Hornby
  18. I’m human. That’s how humans spend their time, doing shitty things. – Nick Hornby
  19. That’s the trouble with good writers. Only the bad ones make you want to do the human thing and look away. – Nick Hornby
  20. If I could have all of those things, I wouldn’t mind if I touched her or not. – Nick Hornby
  21. 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
  22. easily the best thing in her life at the moment was her secret. – Nick Hornby
  23. 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
  24. A highly paid, highly motivated employee who is not allowed to work with his full potential is like a Ferrari which is not allowed out of the garage. – Charbel Tadros
  25. Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be damaged? Do you love me enough that I am allowed to be weak in some places? – Khadija Rupa
  26. Men are allowed to have passion and commitment for their work … a woman is allowed that feeling for a man, but not her work. – Barbra Streisand
  27. You’re allowed to be sad and angry. You’re not allowed to give up. – Karen Salmansohn
  28. It doesn’t matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books. – Jo Walton
  29. Anything that spreads books and brings about more books, I would say it is good. Good medicine, not bad. – Jenny Colgan
  30. If you don’t have anything good to say to yourself, don’t say anything at all – Eric Nwachukwu
  31. He sometimes halted without saying anything. Either he had finally nothing to say or while having something to say he finally decided not to say it. – Samuel Beckett
  32. When bitter, say little; when angry, say nothing; when happy, say much; when joyful, say all. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  33. Knowing what to say is sense, when to say it is intelligence, how to say it is wisdom, why and how to say it is enlightenment. – Matshona Dhliwayo
  34. I am hear to say I love you.I am hear to say I feel you.I am hear to say I care for you.I am hear to say, I really do. – Debasish Mridha
  35. Will the stars say yes? Will the moon say yes? Will the sky say yes? Who will say yes when I will ask you.. will you marry me? – Dr Karan M Pai
  36. When you have something good to say, say it. When you have something ill to say, say something else. – Christian D Larson
  37. God is willing! God will save! God will rescue! God will restore! God will revive! God will empower! God willing and He will do it! – Israelmore Ayivor
  38. Books allowed my imagination to take flight and it hasn’t landed yet – Lynn Payne
  39. Not that she objected to solitude. Quite the contrary. She had books, thank Heaven, quantities of books. All sorts of books. – Jean Rhys
  40. Books. The reading, writing and cultivation of books is my form of meditation. The books in my life have brought me the closet to divinity. – Casey Carter

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