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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Surprised
Food

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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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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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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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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that I'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my O-level results.
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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. Now he hears the ice creak beneath him, and so intense and panicking is the sensation that he has to stand for a moment, press his hands to his face and catch his breath.
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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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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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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
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Be good. Do something good.
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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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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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 am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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