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Life Quotes by David Nicholls

47 Life quotes by David Nicholls

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What if it rained? The quotes urge us to be brave, to try good and bold even when life feels cloudy. They acknowledge self‑pity and worry, but also remind us that change is inevitable and that tidying up our thoughts can set a new direction. The voice is candid and encouraging.

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

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At some point you’ll have to get serious about life.

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Read a book at the right age and it will stay with you for life.

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So - whatever happened to you?' 'Life. Life happened.

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

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Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.

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“Life is about to change if only because it must.”

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

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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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“...if I could give you just one gift ever for the rest of your life it would be this. Confidence. It would…

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The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty…

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

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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…

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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…

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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…

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“No more sleepovers, no more writing poetry, no more wasting time. Time to tidy up your life. Time to start again.”

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All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my…

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This might sound really foolish, but when I came to Edinburgh in 1988 I had spent nearly all my life living south…

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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…

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“In rare moments of self-doubt, Dexter had once worried that a lack of intellect might hold him back in life, but here…

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“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be…

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“That was a memorable day to me, for it made great changes in me. But, it is the same with any life.…

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“Sympathy for the spinster. I'm perfectly content, thank you. And I refuse to be defined by my boyfriend. Or lack of. Once…

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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…

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“What was it, she wondered, this need to brandish his shiny new metropolitan life at her? As soon as she'd met him…

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“What if life had taken a different route? What is had preserved with those letters to publishers when she was twenty-two? Might…

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“Well I can tell you now that married life is not a plateau, not at all. There are ravines and great jagged…

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“What are you going to do with your life?" In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her…

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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…

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“He hoped to be successful, to make his parents proud and to sleep with more than one woman at the same time,…

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“No, this, she felt, was real life and if she wasn’t as curious or passionate as she had once been, that was…

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“They ended up in a amusement arcade on Old Compton Street, where Nora insisted Stephen join her on one of those dance-step…

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“What are you going to do with your life?’ In one way or another it seemed that people had been asking her…

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“You can’t expect people to build their lives around you”

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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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“Suki is the nation’s ideal girlfriend, a woman for whom bubbliness is a way of life, verging on a disorder.”

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Well, it's so hard for books to take off. You give years of your life to something that probably won't happen, so…

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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…

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“It’s like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult…

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No matter how predictable, banal and listless the rest of my life might be, you can guarantee that there'll always be something…

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“How would she fill the days? She had no idea. The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and…

“What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and…

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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…

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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Most of the books and films I love walk a knife edge between romance and cynicism, and I wanted 'One Day' to stay on…