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I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
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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Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger that he will plunge through.
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Maybe we've grown out of each other.
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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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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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Dont run before you can walk
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When you're reading a book, you're always looking for the natural place to stop. With a movie, you can't really have that sense of it coming momentarily to a halt there's pressure to keep the momentum up.
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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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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 am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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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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