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Dont run before you can walk

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Dont
Walk
Walks
Running

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She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
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What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
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