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As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.
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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.
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There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.
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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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From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost....
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It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
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Afterward, there was some debate as to whether we'd actually "done it properly," which gives you some idea of the awesome skill and artful dexterity of my lovemaking technique.
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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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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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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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The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.
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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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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
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She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive notebooks. Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationery.
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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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No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
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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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Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get the chance
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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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She used to pride herself on her refusal to see two sides of an argument, but increasingly she accepts that issues are more ambiguous and complicated than she once thought.
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Oh you know me. I have no emotions. I'm a robot. Or a nun. A robot nun.
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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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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 the possibility of a relationship had faded, Emma had endeavored to harden herself to Dexter's indifference and these days a remark like this caused no more pain than, say, a tennis ball thrown sharply at the back of her head.
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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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Now if the harvest is over, And the world cold, Give me the bonus of laughter, As I lose hold.
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Born:
November 30, 1966
(age 57)
Bio:
David Alan Nicholls is an English novelist and screenwriter.
Known for:
One Day (2009)
Starter for Ten (2003)
The Understudy (2005)
From Dessalines to Duvalier (1979)
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