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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
Failure
Easier
Make
Unhappiness
Joke
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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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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Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
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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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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something interesting going on with my skin.
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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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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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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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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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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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[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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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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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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I would never complain about One Day taking off but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
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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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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.
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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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Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
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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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