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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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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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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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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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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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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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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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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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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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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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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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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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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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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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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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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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