"The city had defeated her, just like they……" — David Nicholls
"The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice if she left."
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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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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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In a land of immigrants, one was not an alien but simply the latest arrival.
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I suffer much less than many of my colleagues. I am perfectly able to go to Australia and film within…
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For the poet the credo or doctrine is not the point of arrival but is, on the contrary, the point…
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For all the noise and anger that too often surrounds the immigration debate, America has nothing to fear from today's…
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If you don't know where you are going, then how will you get there? VISUALISE! Make pictures in your mind.…
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Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to…
— Alistair Cooke
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The greatest event for the world is the arrival of a new and wise person.
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If we really think that home is elsewhere and that this life is a wandering to find home, why should…
— C.S. Lewis
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You're in the midst of a war: a battle between the limits of a crowd seeking the surrender of your…
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When you meditate, what you actually do is to enter into a calm or still, silent mind. We have to…
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It is the unseen, unforgettable, ultimate accessory of fashion that heralds your arrival and prolongs your departure.
— Coco Chanel
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Nothing spoils a good story like the arrival of an eyewitness.
— Mark Twain
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