David Nicholls (writer) - Fact Quotes

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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?

David Nicholls

The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It's just that they don't love me back.

David Nicholls

And you smile back and try not to think about the fact that you have nothing, absolutely nothing, to say to each other.

David Nicholls

As a matter of fact, I think there are more things important in life than "relationships.

David Nicholls

The fact was I loved my wife to a degree that I found impossible to express, and so rarely did.

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