Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

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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…
• Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
• What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
• Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
• The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
• There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health,…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• 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…
• When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could…

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