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I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Applied
Grades
University
Didn
Life

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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed a sign marked WOMEN, thinking it was an exhibition on the changing roles of women in society, and actually ended up standing in the ladies' toilets.
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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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He put one hand lightly on the back of her neck and simultaneously she placed one hand lightly on his hip, and they kissed in the street as all around them people hurried home in the summer light, and it was the sweetest kiss that either of them would ever know. This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today. And then it was over.
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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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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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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 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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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship maddening for her at least.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.
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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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you feel a little bit lost right now about what to do with your life, a bit rudderless and oarless and aimless but that's okay that's alright because we're all meant to be like that at twenty-four.
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She had never been a proficient flirt. Her spasms of kittenish behaviour were graceless and inept, like normal conversation on roller skates. but the combination of the retsina and sun made Emma feel sentimental and light-headed. She reached for her roller skates.
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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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Dont run before you can walk
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