From an evolutionary point of view, most emotions - fear, desire, anger - serve some practical purpose, but nostalgia is a useless, futile thing because it is a longing for something that is permanently lost . . . .
Envy was just the tax you paid on success. - David Nicholls
Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
- David Nicholls
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell. - David Nicholls
The true writer, the born writer, will scribble words on scraps of litter, the back of a bus tickets, on the wall of a cell.
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness… - David Nicholls
Occasionally, very occasionally, say at four o’clock in the afternoon on a wet Sunday, she feels panic-stricken and almost breathless with loneliness…
Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word. - David Nicholls
Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like sn… - David Nicholls
I had always been led to believe that ageing was a slow and gradual process, the creep of a glacier. Now I realise that it happens in a rush, like sn…
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them. - David Nicholls
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it - David Nicholls
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive note… - David Nicholls
She drinks pints of coffee and writes little observations and ideas for stories with her best fountain pen on the linen-white pages of expensive note…
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get t… - David Nicholls
Cherish your friends, stay true to your principles, live passionately and fully and well. Experience new things. Love and be loved, if you ever get t…
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