David Nicholls Quotes

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• You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.

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  Life, Happy, Realizing

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• This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.

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  Love, Hope, Today

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• Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it

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  Heartache, Today, Tomorrow

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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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  New Years Resolution, One Day, Principles

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness. Once or twice she has been known to pick up the phone to check that it isn’t broken. Sometimes she thinks how nice it would be to be woken by a call in the night: ‘get in a taxi now’ or ‘I need to see you, we need to talk’. But at the best of times she feels like a character in a Muriel Spark novel – independent, bookish, sharp-minded, secretly romantic.

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  Nice, Loneliness, Character

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.106, Hachette UK

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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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  Friendship, Clothes, No Friends

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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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  Wall, Writing, Cells

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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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  Notebook, Coffee, Believe

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.104, Hachette UK

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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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  Fall, Believe, Snow

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us: A Novel”, p.8, Harper Collins

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• Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.

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  People

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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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  Differences, World, Courageous

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.381, Hachette UK

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• I contemplate the idea that maybe I'm an alcoholic. I get this occassionally, the need to define myself as something-or-the-other, and at various times in my life have wondered if I'm a Goth, a homosexul, a Jew, a Catholic or a manic depressive, whether I am adopted, or have a hole in my heart, or possess the ability to move objects with the power of my mind, and have always, most regretfully, come to the conclusion that I'm none of the above. The fact is I'm actually not ANYTHING.

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  Moving, Heart, Ideas

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• He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?

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  Better Person, Raises, Persons

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.144, Hachette UK

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• It would be inappropiate, undignified, at 38, to conduct friendships or love affairs with the ardour or intensity of a 22 year old. Falling in love like that? Writing poetry? Crying at pop songs? Dragging people into photobooths? Taking a whole day to make a compilation tape? Asking people if they wanted to share your bed, just for company? If you quoted Bob Dylan or TS Eliot or, god forbid, Brecht at someone these days they would smile politely and step quietly backwards, and who would blame them? Ridiculous, at 38, to expect a song or book or film to change your life.

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  Song, Falling In Love, Book

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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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  Views, Desire, Useless

  David Nicholls (2014). “Us”, p.336, Hachette UK

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• I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.

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  Grades, University

  David Nicholls (2004). “A Question of Attraction: A Novel”, p.159, Villard

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• He could feel her laughter against his chest, and at that moment he thought that there was no better feeling than making Emma Morley laugh.

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  Laughter, Laughing, Feelings

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• And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others

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  Joy, Courses

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• Today. This bright new day that awaits us

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  New Day, Today

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.17, Hachette UK

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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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  Secret, Firsts, Ifs

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• I think what it is is, if you're in school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? You think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And it's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you;re not funny then you're not...anything

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  Running, Nice, Stupid

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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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  Life, Taken, Would Be

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• Envy was just the tax you paid on success.

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  Success, Envy, Taxes

  David Nicholls (2011). “One Day”, p.172, Hachette UK

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• I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and unhappiness is easier because you can make a joke out of it.

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  Thinking, Unhappiness, Achieve

  David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.42, Hachette UK

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• Once you decide not to worry about that stuff anymore, dating and relationships and love and all that, it's like you're free to get on with real life.

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  Real, Worry, Dating

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