Humor Quote by David Nicholls

““It’s like everyone has a central dilemma in their life, and mine was can you be in a committed, mature, loving adult relationship and still get invited to threesomes?" - Dexter Mayhew””

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“Good God, 'the elusive thing'. She had reached a turning point. She no longer believed that a situation could be made better by writing…

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Emma was a shocking driver, simultaneously sloppy and petrified, and for the first fifty miles had been absent-mindedly driving with her spectacles on top…

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I still find it absurdly difficult to concentrate on a novel if there's a phone or computer to hand; I have taken to locking…

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You've got to stop letting women slip drugs into your mouth, Dex, it's unhygienic. And dangerous. One day it'll be a cyanide capsule.

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“He presses two fingers against each eye and attempts to account for this crippling melancholy, but is having trouble with rational thought. It feels…

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“Live each day as if it's our last', that was the conventional advice, but really who had the energy for that? What if it rained or you felt a bit glandy? It just wasn't practical. Better by far to simply try and be good and courageous and bold and to make a difference. Not change the world exactly, but the…

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She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man

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“How would she fill the days? She had no idea. The trick of it, she told herself, is to be courageous and bold and make a difference. Not change the world exactly, just the bit around you. Go out there with your double first, your passion and your new Smith Corona electric typewriter and work hard at…something. Change lives through…

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Sometimes, when it is going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a…

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The city had defeated her, just like they said it would. Like some overcrowded party, no one had noticed her arrival, and would notice…

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