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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
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Ambition

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Be good. Do something good.
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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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...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
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It's hard to overestimate the teenage appetite for high drama.
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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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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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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You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
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The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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Dont run before you can walk
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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.
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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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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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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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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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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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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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She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
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