You don’t know what it means to be competitive until you’ve fought with yourself.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Competing with Yourself
C
Young Love and Music
Y
When you’re young and in love, every song you hear seems to be written for you.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Art of Compilation Tapes
A
The making of a great compilation tape…is hard to do and takes ages longer than it might seem.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Mastering the Past
M
I’m very good at the past. It’s the present I can’t understand.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
The Prison of Self-Hate
T
Sometimes it seems like we’re living in a prison & the crime is how much we hate ourselves.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
The Trap of Sentimentality
T
Sentimentality is the emotional promiscuity of those who have no sentiment.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Record Collections and Relationships
R
It’s no good pretending that any relationship has a future if your record collections disagree violently…
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Feeling Different
F
I always knew there was something wrong with me because I didn’t think like everybody else.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Life, Coffee, and Boys
L
Life’s too short to drink crappy coffee and cry over boys who don’t care.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity
Facing Life’s Challenges
F
There are some things in life you have to face that you can’t turn away from.
Nick Hornby – High Fidelity