Beryl Bainbridge quotes
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“The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour”
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“Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”
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“I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,”
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“When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK
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“Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.181, Penguin UK
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“nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.”
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“Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company
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“The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.154, Penguin UK
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“There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK
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“It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company
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“Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : 1996 Interview in the Daily Telegraph,10 Sep.
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“no one had experiences any more, only traumas.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : Beryl Bainbridge (1967). “A Weekend with Claud”
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“Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : 1977 Injury Time, ch.4.
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“Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.”
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“It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.”
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“I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : "Young, successful, well paid: are they killing feminism?" by Anushka Asthana, Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.
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“There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled”
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“Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.”
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“What we remember is probably fiction anyway.”
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“I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.”
-- Beryl BainbridgeSource : 1976 In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.
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