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David Nicholls

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David Nicholls
Age: 57
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
Novelist
Screenwriter
Writer
Eastleigh Town
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Compulsive
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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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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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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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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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If you're my friend I should be able to talk to you but I can't, and if I can't talk to you, well, what is the point of you? Of us?
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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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Being a decent human being will require effort and energy.
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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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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If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
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I'm not the consolation prize, Dex. I'm not something you resort to. I happen to think I'm worth more than that.
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Why can’t you just love me? Why can’t you just be in love with me?
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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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Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
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I love Billy Wilder, and I love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
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Today. This bright new day that awaits us
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Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
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Be good. Do something good.
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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet.
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