"The attraction of a life devoted to sensation,……" — David Nicholls
"The attraction of a life devoted to sensation, pleasure and self would probably wear thin one day, but there was still plenty of time for that yet."
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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 Attraction Quotes
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I thought the attractions of being an astronaut were actually, not so much the Moon, but flying in a completely…
— Neil Armstrong
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Where youth and diffidence are united, it requires uncommon steadiness of reason to resist the attraction of being called the…
— Jane Austen
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A powerful attraction exists, therefore, to the promotion of a study and of duties of all others engrossing the time…
— Charles Babbage
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Certainly I have no attraction to misery. I don't intentionally go for dark.
— Christian Bale
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I have a perverse attraction to risk. Not physical risk but emotional, financial risk - anything than can't kill you…
— Scott Adams
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Greatness lies, not in being strong, but in the right using of strength; and strength is not used rightly when…
— Henry Ward Beecher
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He is greatest whose strength carries up the most hearts by the attraction of his own.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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Love is about mutual respect, apart from attraction.
— George Best
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Attraction is beyond our will or ideas sometimes.
— Juliette Binoche
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Without contraries is no progression. Attraction and repulsion, reason and energy, love and hate, are necessary to human existence.
— William Blake
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I live my life parallel with my work, and they are both equally important. I'm always amazed how much people…
— Cate Blanchett
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I think the attraction to country music is the fans, the lure of the hardcore fan base.
— Luke Bryan
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