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Be good. Do something good.

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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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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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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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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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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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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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like snow falling off a roof.
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Work hard at . . . something.
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She made you decent, and in return you made her so happy
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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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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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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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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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David Holdaway was my stage name. I was an actor for about eight years in the '90s. I had to change my name because there was another David Nicholls, and I thought if I changed it to my mother's name, she'd be touched.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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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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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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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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