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Dont run before you can walk
I think reality is over-rated
This isn't a letter, it's a gift.
Maybe we've grown out of each other.
Welcome to the graveyard of ambition.
Today. This bright new day that awaits us
Envy was just the tax you paid on success.
Mortified at the speed with which intimacy evaporates.
This is where it all begins. Everything starts here, today.
I applied for the University of Life. Didn't get the grades.
As new dawns go, this one is depressingly like the old dawn.
I've been a compulsive reader for as long as I can remember.
Were helping build capability and capacity in the new Iraqi Navy
So must people hate their jobs.That's why they're called it jobs
I suppose the important thing is to make some sort of difference.
And of course there is always joy in witnessing the joy of others
Whatever happens tomorrow, we had today; and I'll always remember it
She was reaching the limits of how much its possible to change a man
Cuddling was for great aunts and teddy bears. Cuddling gave him cramp.
Just kidding' was exactly what people wrote when they meant every word.
I've only ever been recognised in the street once. In Sweden, strangely.
You can't throw away years of your life because it makes a funny anecdote.
But how can you not like music? That's the same as not liking food! Or sex!
Who do you think you are, Jane Eyre? Grow up. Be sensible. Don't get carried away.
Well, I don't think Hollywood's a dirty word at all, I love a lot of Hollywood films.
If you have to keep a secret it's because you shouldn't be doing it in the first place
At university, I used to write silly little sketches and monologues, but never fiction.
She wondered if she was doomed to be one of those people who spend their lives trying things.
You can live your whole life not realizing that what you're looking for is right in front of you.
but they had also settled into the maddening familiarity of friendship; maddening for her at least.
...and once again Dexter is struck by how easy conversation can be when no-one is in their right mind
I would never complain about 'One Day' taking off, but it made me painfully self-conscious for a long time.
No, friends were like clothes: fine while they lasted but eventually they wore thin or you grew out of them.
He wanted to live life in such a way that if a photograph were taken at random, it would be a cool photograph.
Dexter, I love you so much. So, so much, and I probably always will. I just don't like you anymore. I'm sorry.
It's the face itself that I love, not that face at twenty-eight or thirty-four or forty-three. It's that face.
I'm trying to be inspiring! I'm trying to lift your grubby soul for the great adventure that lies ahead of you!
I really was a terrible actor. I did it for years in my twenties because it was like being at university again.
You start out wanting to change the world through language, and end up thinking it's enough to tell a few good jokes.
In the future, I'll be braver, she told herself. In the future, I will always speak my mind, eloquently, passionately.
He's a better person when she's around, and isn't that what friends are for, to raise you up and keep you at your best?
The future rose up ahead of her, a succession of empty days, each more daunting and unknowable than the one before her.
Find the thing you love, and do it with all your heart, to the absolute best of your ability, no matter what people say.
I am not up to this. I am not capable. I thought I would be, but I'm not. Some part of me is missing, and I cannot do this.
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.
Better by far to be good and courageous and bold and to make difference. Not change the world exactly, but the bit around you
Salmon. Salmon, salmon, salmon, salmon. I eat so much salmon at these weddings, twice a year I get this urge to swim upstream.
I love that sound,' he mumbled into her hair. 'Blackbirds at dawn.' 'I hate it. Makes me think I've done something I'll regret.
I identified with Pip from 'Great Expectations,' especially when I was younger; I had the same kind of gaucheness and uncertainty.
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.