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Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.

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Heart, People, Matter

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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.

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Silly, Writing, Fiction

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You're gorgeous, you old hag, and if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would be the gift of confidence. Either that or a scented candle

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Self Confidence, Giving, Would Be

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

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For his thirtieth birthday he had filled a whole night-club off Regent Street; people had been queuing on the pavement to get in. The SIM card of his mobile phone in his pocket was overflowing with telephone numbers of all the hundreds of people he had met in the last ten years, and yet the only person he had ever wanted to talk to in all that time was standing now in the very next room.

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Night, Phones, Years

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A moment passed, perhaps half a second when their faces said what they felt, and then Emma was smiling, laughing, her arms around his neck.

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Laughing, Half, Arms

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She glanced across to where Tilly and her brand new husband were posing for photographs, Tilly fluttering a fan coquettishly in front of her face. 'Unfortunately I didn't realise there was a French Revolutionary theme.' 'The Marie-Antoinette thing?' said Dexter. 'Well at least we know there'll be cake.

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Husband, Cake, Fans

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And then some days you wake up and everything's perfect

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Perfect, Wake Up

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.69, Hachette UK

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Dont run before you can walk

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Running, Walks

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Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.

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Sex, Aunt, Cuddling

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.14, Hachette UK

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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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Speech, Moments, Henry V

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The problem with all these fiercely individualistic girls was that they were all exactly the same.

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Girl, Problem, Individualistic

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You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

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Drug, One Day, Mouths

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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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Writing, Made, Situation

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.55, Hachette UK

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Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary.

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Believe, Sometimes, Wonder

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For some time now she has had the conviction that life is about to change if only because it must. . . .

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Life Is, Conviction, Ifs

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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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Thinking, Resorts, Consolation

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...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind

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Mind, Easy, Conversation

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The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a different. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double-first, your passion and your new Smith Carona electric typewriter and work hard at ... something. Change lives through art maybe. Write beautifully. Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved if at all possible. East sensibly. Stuff like that.

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Art, Life Changing, Hard Work

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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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Rose, Empty, Succession

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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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Character, Independent, Sparks

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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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Thinking, Hands, Photograph

David Nicholls (2009). “One Day”, p.26, Hachette UK

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All his words and actions would now be fit for his daughter’s ears and eyes. Life would be lived as if under [her] constant scrutiny. He would never do anything that might cause her pain or anxiety or embarrassment and there would be nothing, absolutely nothing in his life to be ashamed of anymore.

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Daughter, Pain, Eye

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The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left.

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Party, Cities, Defeated

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You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.

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Years, Anecdotes

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I tell you what it is. It's...when I didn't see you, I thought about you every day, I mean every day in some way or another -" "Same here -" "- even if it was just 'I wish Dexter could see this' or 'where's Dexter now?' or 'Christ, that Dexter, what an idiot', you know what I mean, and seeing you today, well, I thought I'd got you back - my best friend. And now all this, the wedding, the baby - I'm so happy for you, Dex. But it feels like I've lost you again.

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Baby, Mean, Wish

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Born: November 30, 1966
Occupation: Novelist
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