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David Nicholls
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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Eastleigh Town
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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
David Nicholls
I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
David Nicholls
The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.
David Nicholls
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
David Nicholls
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
David Nicholls
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
David Nicholls
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
David Nicholls
Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
David Nicholls
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.
David Nicholls
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
David Nicholls
Work hard at . . . something.
David Nicholls
Be good. Do something good.
David Nicholls
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
David Nicholls
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
David Nicholls
She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
David Nicholls
We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
David Nicholls
So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
David Nicholls
If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
David Nicholls
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
David Nicholls
Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
David Nicholls