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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Letters
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Be good. Do something good.
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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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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.
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I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'Treated like what?' She sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'Like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
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When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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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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Call me sentimental, but there's no-one in the world that I'd like to see get dysentery more than you
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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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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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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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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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
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