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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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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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Screenwriter
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Eastleigh Town
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I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
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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 can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
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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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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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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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We're not ourselves, are we? I'm certainly not myself, not anymore. And you're not either. You don't seem yourself. Not as I remember you.
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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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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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She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing a poem about it.
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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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…and Emma felt another small portion of her soul fall away.
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She shouldn't speak her thoughts nothing good ever came of speaking your thoughts.
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Be good. Do something good.
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The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a National Trust property or some such.
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