“It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.”

Variant: The plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin addict or a performance poet to experience extremity. You just have to love someone.
Source: How to Be Good

Last update June 3, 2021. History

Help us to complete the source, original and additional information

Do you have more details about the quote "It seems to me now that the plain state of being human is dramatic enough for anyone; you don't need to be a heroin add…" by Nick Hornby?
Nick Hornby photo
Nick Hornby 110
English novelist 1957

Related quotes

Irvine Welsh photo
Britney Spears photo

“You have babies at home. And you have a life. And if you don't, you have to realize that we're people and that we just need privacy and we need our respect. And those are things that you have to have as a human being.”

Britney Spears (1981) American singer, dancer and actress

Matt Lauer interview http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/13347509/page/4/, MSNBC (14 June 2006)

George Michael photo
Christopher Moore photo
Leonard Cohen photo

“You whisper, "You have loved enough,
Now let me be the Lover."”

Leonard Cohen (1934–2016) Canadian poet and singer-songwriter

"You Have Loved Enough"
Ten New Songs (2001)

Margaret Mead photo

“One of the oldest human needs is having someone to wonder where you are when you don't come home at night.”

Margaret Mead (1901–1978) American anthropologist

Attributed in The Quotable Woman (1991) by the Running Press, p. 53
1990s

Marilyn Monroe photo
Dan Rather photo

Related topics