"You can't throw away years of your life……" — David Nicholls
"You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote."
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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 Anecdote Quotes
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One good anecdote is worth a volume of biography.
— William Ellery Channing
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If some good evidence for life after death were announced, I'd be eager to examine it; but it would have…
— Carl Sagan
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Anecdote: It is by no means self-evident that human beings are most real when most violently excited; violent physical passions…
— Thomas Stearns Eliot
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Anecdote: Greatness Means Leading the Way. No stream is large and copious of itself, but becomes great by receiving and…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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People meeting for the first time suddenly relax if they find they both have cats. And plunge into anecdote.
— Charlotte Gray
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Anecdote: In a controversial way, Comedian and actor Bill Cosby sought to teach his son the pain of being lied…
— Bill Cosby
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History, if viewed as a repository for more than anecdote or chronology, could produce a decisive transformation in the image…
— Thomas Kuhn
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During a frustrating argument with a Roman Catholic cardinal, Napoleon Bonaparte supposedly burst out: Your eminence, are you not aware…
— Ross Douthat
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Art to me is an anecdote of the spirit,
— Mark Rothko
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An anecdote is related of Sir Anthony Ashley Cooper (1621-1683), who, in speaking of religion, said, "People differ in their…
— Gilbert Burnet
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You must get beyond divertissement, sketch, anecdote, the interesting moment. You must get to the mystery of human personality. What…
— John L'Heureux
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Sometimes I get the start of a story from a memory, an anecdote, but that gets lost and is usually…
— Alice Munro
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