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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
David Nicholls
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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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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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But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
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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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The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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An adaptation leads the cinema-goer to the original to find out what they're missing and if they already know the book, it can still illuminate a theme, a character, an idea.
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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand I have taken to locking them outside the room like noisy pets.
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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 shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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I work three days at home, and two days in the British Library or the London Library, just to get out of the house and hide from the children.
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