Graham Swift Quotes:
Ocupation: Film writer
Life: b. May 4, 1949
Birthday: May 4
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?
source: Graham Swift (1991). “Waterland”, Simon & Schuster
topic: Country, Strong, Children, Dose Of Reality, Fatalism, Acquire, Heavy Drinking
