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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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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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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today and I'll always remember it
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He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. I mean I'd sort of understand it more if it said Yale or Harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. But why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
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She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.
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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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[He] didn’t like to think of himself as vain, but there were definitely times when he wished there was someone on hand to take his photograph.
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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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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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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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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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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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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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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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