"but they had also settled into the maddening……" — David Nicholls
"but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least."
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151 Quotes by David Nicholls
David Nicholls has 151 quotes on this site.
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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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I think you actually get a kick out of being disappointed and under-achieving, because it's easier, isn't it? Failure and…
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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…
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Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
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At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
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I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
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I worry sometimes that I'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be…
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I had made this mistake once before, on a school trip to the Victoria and Albert Museum, when I followed…
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If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious…
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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…
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Alice doesn't seem to mind because she's laughing too, and biting her lip, all doe-eyed, and tossing her freshly washed…
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And then she frowned, and shook her head, then put her arms around him once more, pressing her face into…
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More Familiarity Quotes
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Marriage must incessantly contend with a monster that devours everything: familiarity.
— HonorÈ De Balzac
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In communications, familiarity breeds apathy.
— William Bernbach
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Familiarity breeds contempt.
— Aesop
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If ever a man and his wife, or a man and his mistress, who pass nights as well as days…
— Lord Chesterfield
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The representative element in a work of art may or may not be harmful, but it is always irrelevant. For…
— Clive Bell
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Familiarity confounds all traits of distinction; interest and prejudice take away the power of judging.
— William Hazlitt
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Familiarity is the root of the closest friendships, as well as the interests hatreds.
— Antoine Rivarol
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From long familiarity, we know what honor is. It is what enables the individual to do right in the face…
— Mark Helprin
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No matter what activity or practice we are pursuing, there isn't anything that isn't made easier through constant familiarity and…
— Dalai Lama
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On her daughter Deva: I didn't have familiarity with children. I'm learning day after day, with her. And what impress…
— Monica Bellucci
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The aspects of a thing that are most important to us are hidden to us because of their simplicity and…
— Ludwig Wittgenstein
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If there be no great love in the beginning, yet heaven may decrease it upon better acquaintance, when we are…
— William Shakespeare
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