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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

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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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Life

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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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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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You must do what you enjoy.
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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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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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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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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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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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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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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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