"The sad fact is that I love Dickens……" — David Nicholls
"The sad fact is that I love Dickens and Donne and Keats and Eliot and Forster and Conrad and Fitzgerald and Kafka and Wilde and Orwell and Waugh and Marvell and Greene and Sterne and Shakespeare and Webster and Swift and Yeats and Joyce and Hardy, really, really love them. It’s just that they don’t love me back."
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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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Sheree Conrad and Michael Milburn bring a much-needed sanity to that confusing and unruly terrain, our sexual lives/
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Expeditions can greatly contribute towards building strength of character. Joseph Conrad in Lord Jim tells us that it is necessary…
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The slight, the facile and the merely self-glorifying tend to drop away over the centuries, and what we are left…
— Wendy Lesser
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Majestic and stately as Conrad Richter''s Awakening Land Trilogy, Evangeline is a big book from a big mind.
— Katharine Weber
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You're looking at a species of flimsy little two-legged animals with extremely small heads whose name is Man...Very tiny undeveloped…
— Rod Serling
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After my mother died, I found, a little book of hers which recorded everything I had ever done, how I…
— Conrad Veidt
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[W.H.R.] Rivers is the Rider Haggard of anthropology; I shall be the Conrad.
— Bronislaw Malinowski
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By the time I got to be director of product management at Thomas-Conrad, I was in a better negotiating position,…
— Maynard Webb
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Conrad Hilton was very generous to me in the divorce settlement. He gave me 5000 Gideon Bibles.
— Zsa Zsa Gabor
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She had lolled about for three years at Girton with the kind of books she could equally have read at…
— Ian Mcewan
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Conrad placed on the title page an epigraph taken from Edmund Spenser's The Faerie Queene: "Sleep after toyle, port after…
— Joseph Conrad
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The books transported her into new worlds and introduced her to amazing people who lived exciting lives. She went on…
— Roald Dahl
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