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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
David Nicholls
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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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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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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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You must do what you enjoy.
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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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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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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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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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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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Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
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Work hard at . . . something.
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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