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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Eastleigh Town
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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
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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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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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She made a firm resolution, one of the resolutions she was making almost daily these days. No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.
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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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From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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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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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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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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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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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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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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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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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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