"Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for……" — David Nicholls
"Letters, like compilation tapes, were really vehicles for unexpressed emotions and she was clearly putting far too much time and energy into them."
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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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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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