"If she does have a failing, and it's……" — David Nicholls
"If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway."
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151 Quotes by David Nicholls
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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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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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And they did have fun, though it was of different kind now. All that yearning and passion had been replaced…
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More Curious Quotes
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I've learned not to look at reviews. Early on, I did. I was always curious.
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I think that the American people are curious about who a candidate is, what their background is, who their family…
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If you're curious, London's an amazing place.
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It would be curious to know what leads a man to become a stationer rather than a baker, when he…
— Honore de Balzac
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I'm just curious, who's more fit to raise a child? A loving committed same-sex couple or an unmarried 15-year-old with…
— Ellen Barkin
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What a curious phenomenon it is that you can get men to die for the liberty of the world who…
— Bruce Barton
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'And for my part, Gentlemen,' said I, 'that I may put in for a share, and guess with the rest;…
— Cyrano de Bergerac
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Only barbarians are not curious about where they come from, how they came to be where they are, where they…
— Isaiah Berlin
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It is a curious phenomena that God has made the hearts of the poor, rich and those of the rich,…
— Vinoba Bhave
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I'm always curious about what happens when we die. And I'd like to think that somehow the spirit goes on.…
— Nicolas Cage
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A good book, in the language of the book-sellers, is a salable one; in that of the curious, a scarce…
— Oswald Chambers
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It is a curious thought, but it is only when you see people looking ridiculous that you realize just how…
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