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title: "1 Taste Literature Quotes By Linda Grant"
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> [“Books are too personal as objects to be displayed, in case a potential buyer is put off by your taste for Nietzsche or Marian Keyes. You would not display the contents of your knicker and sock drawer, or your bathroom…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/books-are-too-personal-as-objects-to-be-displayed-in-case-a-potential/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

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## More by Linda Grant

> [Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes can lead to ignoble…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/many-of-us-whether-in-the-jungles-of-asia-or-on-the-streets-of/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“Lord Malquist and Mr Moon was the literary equivalent of the Wonderbra for intellectually pretentious students of the seventies.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/lord-malquist-and-mr-moon-was-the-literary-equivalent-of-the/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My real crime was not…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/i-was-embarrassed-by-my-parents-i-thought-they-had-nothing-of/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“I was the girl whose face fell when she saw a wrapped present in the shape of a box, perhaps a jigsaw puzzle. Worst…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/i-was-the-girl-whose-face-fell-when-she-saw-a-wrapped-present-in-the/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [It's not the punch you expect that knocks you down.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/it-s-not-the-punch-you-expect-that-knocks-you-down/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“She had been maimed by an illness that was so far out of fashion it might have been a wartime recipe for pink blancmange…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/she-had-been-maimed-by-an-illness-that-was-so-far-out-of-fashion-it/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“You cannot have a taste for minimalist décor if you seriously read books.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/you-cannot-have-a-taste-for-minimalist-d-cor-if-you-seriously-read/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you were to gather all…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/clothes-as-text-clothes-as-narration-clothes-as-a-story-clothes-as/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/there-is-probably-no-finer-prose-writer-alive-in-britain-now-no-one/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“And your neihjbour is sitting next door weeping as she watches her child facing a crowd of Palestiniankids armed with rocks which could take…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/and-your-neihjbour-is-sitting-next-door-weeping-as-she-watches-her/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/when-i-was-a-child-on-sunday-mornings-the-family-would-assemble/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [Revenge is so much more satisfying than regret.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/revenge-is-so-much-more-satisfying-than-regret/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [“How can life end in the middle of the story? Because life always does.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/how-can-life-end-in-the-middle-of-the-story-because-life-always-does/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the coffee table and by…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/i-am-not-by-any-stretch-of-the-imagination-a-tidy-person-and-the/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

> [I'm not shy, not reclusive, not any of those things, but the idea of a day in front of me when I have nothing…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/linda-grant/i-m-not-shy-not-reclusive-not-any-of-those-things-but-the-idea-of-a/)

[Linda Grant](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/linda-grant/)

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