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Sometimes, when it's going badly, she wonders if what she believes to be a love of the written word is really just a fetish for stationary. The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus ticket, on the wall of a cell.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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If you're at school and you're not that bright or good-looking or popular or whatever, and one day you say something and someone laughs, well, you sort of grab onto it, don't you? you think, well I run funny and I've got this stupid big face and big thighs and no-one fancies me, but at least I can make people laugh. And It's such a nice feeling, making someone laugh, that maybe you get a bit reliant on it. Like, if you're not funny then you're not... anything.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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She was discovering once again that reading and writing were not the same-you couldn't just soak it up then squeeze it out again.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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A joke was not a single-use item but something you brought out again and again until it fell apart in your hand like a cheap umbrella.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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Envy was just the tax you paid on success.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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Friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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To have had fame, even very minor fame, and to have lost it, got older and maybe put on a little weight is a kind of living death.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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There's something unnatural about a woman finding babies or, more specifically, conversation about babies, boring. They'll think she's bitter, jealous, lonely. But she's also bored of everybody telling her how lucky she is, what with all that sleep and all that freedom and spare time, the ability to go on dates or head off to Paris at a moments notice. It sounds like they're consoling her, and she resents this and feels patronized by it.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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Maybe that's just what happens; you start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few jokes.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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These days grief seems like walking on a frozen river; most of the time he feels safe enough, but there is always that danger he will plunge through.: David Nicholls, One Day, 2010
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