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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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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Mind
Dexter
Struck
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Easy

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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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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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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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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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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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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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Work hard at . . . something.
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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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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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I think I became a writer because I used to write letters to my friends, and I used to love writing them. I loved the idea that you can put marks on a page and send it off, and two days later, someone laughs somewhere else in the world.
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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.
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She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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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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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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If there's anything I'm keen to get better at in my writing, then it's the writing of prose as opposed to the writing of dialogue.
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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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