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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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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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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
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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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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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I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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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.
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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.
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Work hard at . . . something.
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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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…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
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You must do what you enjoy.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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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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