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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
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Eastleigh Town
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
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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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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
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Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them.
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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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