One thing about great art: it made you love people more, forgive them their petty transgressions. It worked in the way that religion was supposed to, if you thought about it.

Nick Hornby
One thing about great art: it made you love people...
One thing about great art: it made you love people...
One thing about great art: it made you love people...
One thing about great art: it made you love people...
About This Quote

A quote from the film Forrest Gump is said by the character Jenny. The quote captures the power of art to transform people and bring them closer together through shared understanding.

Source: Juliet, Naked

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More Quotes By Nick Hornby
  1. 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.

  2. Sometimes you know you've got a chance with a girl because she wants to fight with you. If the world wasn't so messed up, it wouldn't be like that. If the world was normal, a girl being nice to you would be a good sign,...

  3. Hard is trying to rebuild yourself, piece by piece, with no instruction book, and no clue as to where all the important bits are supposed to go.

  4. There had been times when he knew, somewhere in him, that he would get used to it, whatever it was, because he had learnt that some hard things became softer after a very little while.

  5. My friends don't seem to be friends at all but people whose phone numbers I haven't lost.

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