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You must do what you enjoy.

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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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Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.
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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
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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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As soon as she'd met him at the arrivals gate on his return from Thailand, lithe and brown and shaven-headed, she knew that there was no chance of a relationship between them. Too much had happened to him, too little had happened to her.
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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He has found himself more and more reliant on her at exactly the point that she has become less available to him.
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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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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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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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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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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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Work hard at . . . something.
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What must that be like? To be admired before you’ve even said a word, to be desired two or three hundred times a day by people who have absolutely no idea what you’re like?
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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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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