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David Nicholls
Age: 58
Born: 1966
Born: November 30
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As a novelist, I'm incredibly lucky to make a living, but that doesn't mean that I don't lie awake at four o'clock in the morning, worrying.
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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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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.
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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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She realises that if she is to save the show she is going to have to improvise a rousing speech, one of the many Henry V moments that make up her working life.
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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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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
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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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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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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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And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
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This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
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Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.
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…surprised all over again at how very comforting very bad food can be.
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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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He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
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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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Do you miss her?' 'Who? Emma? Of course. Every day. She was my best friend.
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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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