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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
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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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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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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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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Be good. Do something good.
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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
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Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
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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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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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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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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect
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When I was an actor, I worked with lots of men who had a bit of success early on, who were very good looking, who suddenly made a bit of money and who felt no embarrassment - and nor should they have done - about having a good time.
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This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
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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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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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Everything was fine, and she had the rare, new sensation of being exactly where she wanted to be.
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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
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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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Work hard at . . . something.
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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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