List of David Nicholls Quotes

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David Nicholls
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As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
Dawn
The early days of any relationship are punctuated with a series of firsts - first sight, first words, first laugh, first kiss, first nudity, etc., with these shared landmarks becoming more widely spaced and innocuous as days turn to years, until eventually you're left with first visit to a national trust property or some such.
Kissing Years Sight
He's wearing his official university sweatshirt again, which puzzles me a little. i mean i'd sort of understand it more if it said yale or harvard or something, because then it would be a fashion choice. but why advertise the fact that you're at a university to all the other people who are at the university with you?
Fashion Mean Yale
Well, i don't think hollywood's a dirty word at all, i love a lot of hollywood films.
Dirty Thinking Hollywood Films
I'm just not prepared to be treated like this anymore.' 'treated like what?' she sighed, and it was a moment before she spoke. 'like you always want to be somewhere else, with someone else.
Somewhere Else Want Moments
Fear and anxiety are great motivators for me.
Anxiety
I worry sometimes that i'm a bit moralistic; always writing about men who are learning to grow up, not be so self-absorbed, selfish or badly behaved. i wonder if that's dull and liberal and wimpy? i should probably write something that celebrates wickedness.
Growing Up Selfish Writing
All young people worry about things, it's a natural and inevitable part of growing up, and at the age of sixteen my greatest anxiety in life was that i'd never again achieve anything as good, or pure, or noble, or true, as my o-level results.
Growing Up People Worry
Maybe we've grown out of each other.
I love billy wilder, and i love the way that his films can be very touching and very moving and very romantic, and at the same time there's always a little cynical undertone, there's always something that undercuts things.
Moving Cynical Touching
If she does have a failing, and it's obviously only a tiny one, it's that she doesn't seem particularly curious about other people, or me, anyway.
People Doe Tiny
I can't believe it's actually happening. this is independent adulthood, this is what it feels like. shouldn't there be some sort of ritual? in certain remote african tribes there'd be some incredible four day rites of passage ceremony involving tattooing and potent hallucinogenic drugs extracted from tree-frogs, and village elders smearing my body with monkey blood, but here,rites of passage is all about three new pairs of pants and stuffing your duvet in a bin-liner.
Believe Independent African Tribes
  • Born: November 30, 1966
  • Occupation: Novelist
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