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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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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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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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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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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
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And it was at moments like this that she had to remind herself that she was in love with him, or had once been in love with him, a long time ago.
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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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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I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
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She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
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Dont run before you can walk
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.
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