--- title: "60 Jonathan Coe Quotes - Famous Novelist (The Rotters' Club)" description: "Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is ofte..." image: "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jonathan-coe-52862.jpg" --- ![Portrait of Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/wp-content/uploads/sms4s/authors/processed/b014/author-jonathan-coe-52862.jpg) # Jonathan Coe (1961) Novelist United Kingdom **60** quotes in **307** categories Rate this collection: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ No ratings yet Jonathan Coe is a novelist from the United Kingdom, best known for *The Rotters' Club*. ## Quick Facts About Jonathan Coe Born August 19, 1961 Nationality United Kingdom Profession Novelist Notable works The Rotters' Club Known for What a Carve Up! ## About Jonathan Coe Jonathan Coe is an English novelist and writer. His work has an underlying preoccupation with political issues, although this serious engagement is often expressed comically in the form of satire. For example, What a Carve Up! (1994) reworks the plot of an old 1960s spoof horror film of the same name. It is set within the "carve up" of the UK's resources that was carried out by Margaret Thatcher's Conservative governments of the 1980s. ## Awards & Honors John Llewellyn Rhys Prize Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Prize Baillie Gifford Prize Prix Médicis étranger Chevalier des Arts et des Lettres Fellow of the Royal Society of Literature Q130553019 Q137863831 ## Quotes by Jonathan Coe > [Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/thatcherism-has-become-bigger-than-she-ever-was/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e32/jonathan-coe-10154_bigger_thatcherism-has-become-bigger-than-she-e_1238509.jpg) > [Well, I like the rain before it falls.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/well-i-like-the-rain-before-it-falls/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/66b/jonathan-coe-10154_fall_well-i-like-the-rain-before-it-falls-163_1638694.jpg) > [But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/but-we-are-entitled-to-look-for-continuity-in-politics/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Continuity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/continuity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c9c/jonathan-coe-10154_continuity_but-we-are-entitled-to-look-for-continui_1182939.jpg) > [I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/i-m-one-of-those-unlucky-people-who-had-a-happy-childhood/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Childhood](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/childhood/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b58/jonathan-coe-10154_childhood_i-m-one-of-those-unlucky-people-who-had_2654810.jpg) > [Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/ah-well-i-have-no-talent-for-nonfiction-that-s-my-problem/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Nonfiction](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/nonfiction/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/e63/jonathan-coe-10154_nonfiction_ah-well-i-have-no-talent-for-nonfiction_437906.jpg) > [But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/but-you-can-try-to-read-books-at-the-wrong-time-or-for-the-wrong/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/685/jonathan-coe-10154_book_but-you-can-try-to-read-books-at-the-wro_2424312.jpg) > [They were written in the early '90s when I was strapped for cash.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/they-were-written-in-the-early-90s-when-i-was-strapped-for-cash/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/1c8/jonathan-coe-10154_cash_they-were-written-in-the-early-90s-when_358407.jpg) > [Objectivity is just male subjectivity.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/objectivity-is-just-male-subjectivity/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Males](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/males/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/229/jonathan-coe-10154_males_objectivity-is-just-male-subjectivity-27_2729648.jpg) > [But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/but-at-the-same-time-i-have-trouble-keeping-things-out-of-books-which/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/450/jonathan-coe-10154_book_but-at-the-same-time-i-have-trouble-keep_441624.jpg) > [The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/the-more-melancholy-side-of-my-literary-personality-is-much-in-tune/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/0af/jonathan-coe-10154_johnson_the-more-melancholy-side-of-my-literary_375047.jpg) > [As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/as-soon-as-you-start-writing-about-how-human-beings-interact-with/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Human beings](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/human-beings/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b88/jonathan-coe-10154_human-beings_as-soon-as-you-start-writing-about-how-h_205172.jpg) > [“Yes - I've learned from my mistakes, and I'm sure I could repeat them perfectly.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/yes-i-ve-learned-from-my-mistakes-and-i-m-sure-i-could-repeat-them/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Humor-inspirational](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/humor-inspirational/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/882/jonathan-coe-10154_humor-inspirational_yes-i-ve-learned-from-my-mistakes-and-i_944611.jpg) > [ “\[...\] words are tricky little bastards, and very rarely say what you want them to say \[...\]” ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/words-are-tricky-little-bastards-and-very-rarely-say-what-you-want/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Language](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/language/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/5ac/jonathan-coe-10154_quote_words-are-tricky-little-bastards-and-ver_1113381.jpg) > [It seems to me that you would have to write a novel on a very small, intimate scale for it not to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/it-seems-to-me-that-you-would-have-to-write-a-novel-on-a-very-small/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/23b/jonathan-coe-10154_books_it-seems-to-me-that-you-would-have-to-wr_2892103.jpg) > [You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/you-would-go-mad-if-you-began-to-speculate-about-the-impact-your/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Books](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/41a/jonathan-coe-10154_books_you-would-go-mad-if-you-began-to-specula_2829040.jpg) > [Some people don't realize that a straight 'No' can be the kindest answer in the world.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/some-people-don-t-realize-that-a-straight-no-can-be-the-kindest/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b02/jonathan-coe-10154_answer_some-people-don-t-realize-that-a-straigh_604892.jpg) > [ For many weeks after \[my wife\] died, I could not get used to the feeling of coldness and lifelessness on her side… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/for-many-weeks-after-my-wife-died-i-could-not-get-used-to-the-feeling/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b95/jonathan-coe-10154_bed_for-many-weeks-after-my-wife-died-i-coul_1335962.jpg) > [I like the rain before it falls. of course there is no such thing, she said. That's why it's my favorite. Something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/i-like-the-rain-before-it-falls-of-course-there-is-no-such-thing-she/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/749/jonathan-coe-10154_fall_i-like-the-rain-before-it-falls-of-cours_1556310.jpg) > [“You didn't take part, Benjamin?" Gunther asked, as he passed me a plate of cheese and cold meat. "My brother doesn't play…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/you-didn-t-take-part-benjamin-gunther-asked-as-he-passed-me-a-plate/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Brother](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/brother/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/b69/jonathan-coe-10154_brother_you-didn-t-take-part-benjamin-gunther-as_191262.jpg) > [ “Live life as it was meant to be lived. Half asleep, preferably. \[...\] She preferred \[...\] to go to sleep at once,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/live-life-as-it-was-meant-to-be-lived-half-asleep-preferably-she/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/ab4/jonathan-coe-10154_life_live-life-as-it-was-meant-to-be-lived-ha_1390884.jpg) > [“Le auto sono come le persone. Ogni giorno andiamo in giro in mezzo alla ressa, corriamo di qua e di là, arrivando…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/le-auto-sono-come-le-persone-ogni-giorno-andiamo-in-giro-in-mezzo/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Amor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/f8b/jonathan-coe-10154_amor_le-auto-sono-come-le-persone-ogni-giorno_511861.jpg) > [Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other places, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/contemporary-britain-seems-an-endlessly-fascinating-place-to-me-but/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Britain](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/britain/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c32/jonathan-coe-10154_britain_contemporary-britain-seems-an-endlessly_2502732.jpg) > [I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/i-think-it-s-also-the-case-that-i-m-not-as-widely-travelled-or-as/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/804/jonathan-coe-10154_about_i-think-it-s-also-the-case-that-i-m-not_1892629.jpg) > [The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/the-biggest-markets-for-my-books-outside-the-uk-are-france-and-italy/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Book](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/book/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/343/jonathan-coe-10154_book_the-biggest-markets-for-my-books-outside_2532053.jpg) > [We say, 'Shall we meet for a drink?', as though drinking were the main end of the appointment, and the matter of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/we-say-shall-we-meet-for-a-drink-as-though-drinking-were-the-main-end/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/142/jonathan-coe-10154_acknowledge_we-say-shall-we-meet-for-a-drink-as-thou_1133202.jpg) > [“...he was the proud owner of a quite colossal member, which on the many awestruck occasions it had been exposed to public…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/he-was-the-proud-owner-of-a-quite-colossal-member-which-on-the-many/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Funny](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/funny/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/3c9/jonathan-coe-10154_funny_he-was-the-proud-owner-of-a-quite-coloss_524685.jpg) > [“If there was one kind of hat Terry despised above all others, it was the baseball cap. There was nothing wrong with…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/if-there-was-one-kind-of-hat-terry-despised-above-all-others-it-was/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/dfa/jonathan-coe-10154_quote_if-there-was-one-kind-of-hat-terry-despi_1541646.jpg) > [“He waited in silence for the blindfold to be tied firmly at the back of his head. ‘Right,’ said Wilkins, emphatically. ‘That…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/he-waited-in-silence-for-the-blindfold-to-be-tied-firmly-at-the-back/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Blindfold](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/blindfold/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/352/jonathan-coe-10154_quote_he-waited-in-silence-for-the-blindfold-t_1296156.jpg) > [I was going to say 'my friend Stuart', but I suppose he's not a friend any more. I seem to have lost…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/i-was-going-to-say-my-friend-stuart-but-i-suppose-he-s-not-a-friend/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c18/jonathan-coe-10154_asking_i-was-going-to-say-my-friend-stuart-but_18658.jpg) > [Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/sometimes-i-feel-that-i-am-destined-always-to-be-offstage-whenever/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Action](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/action/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/d42/jonathan-coe-10154_action_sometimes-i-feel-that-i-am-destined-alwa_1382107.jpg) > [“Well, there'll be an outcry, of course, but then it'll die down and something else will come along for people to get…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/well-there-ll-be-an-outcry-of-course-but-then-it-ll-die-down-and/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Children](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/children/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/872/jonathan-coe-10154_children_well-there-ll-be-an-outcry-of-course-but_501537.jpg) > [“These pieces, he already realised, were merely stepping stones at the start of a journey towards something - some grand artefact, either…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/these-pieces-he-already-realised-were-merely-stepping-stones-at-the/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/095/jonathan-coe-10154_stepping-stones_these-pieces-he-already-realised-were-me_1554004.jpg) > [ “\[...\] these questions gave way, in the course of time, to a different preoccupation, namely, a slow and growing awareness of familiarity… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/these-questions-gave-way-in-the-course-of-time-to-a-different/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/a62/jonathan-coe-10154_time_these-questions-gave-way-in-the-course-o_1715122.jpg) > [“Hey - Duggie! Duggie! Duggie!" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/hey-duggie-duggie-duggie-he-came-running-up-to-me-sparkler-in-hand-i/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Equality of opportunity](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/equality-of-opportunity/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/jonathan-coe-10154_equality-of-opportun_hey-duggie-duggie-duggie-he-came-running_2433814.jpg) > [“Well, I thought you might want to listen to this. I mean, I thought you might be . . . ready for…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/well-i-thought-you-might-want-to-listen-to-this-i-mean-i-thought-you/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Communication](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/communication/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c3b/jonathan-coe-10154_communication_well-i-thought-you-might-want-to-listen_3179468.jpg) > [“As for human contact, I'd lost all appetite for it. Mankind has, as you may have noticed, become very inventive about devising…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/as-for-human-contact-i-d-lost-all-appetite-for-it-mankind-has-as-you/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Busy life](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/busy-life/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/8fc/jonathan-coe-10154_busy-life_as-for-human-contact-i-d-lost-all-appeti_2283309.jpg) > [“There’s a fine line between forgetting an event, and suppressing the memory of it.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/there-s-a-fine-line-between-forgetting-an-event-and-suppressing-the/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Fine line](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/fine-line/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/c50/jonathan-coe-10154_fine-line_there-s-a-fine-line-between-forgetting-a_1145513.jpg) > [“Me gusta la lluvia antes de caer. Ya sé que no existe. Por eso es mi favorita. Porque no hace falta que…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/me-gusta-la-lluvia-antes-de-caer-ya-s-que-no-existe-por-eso-es-mi/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Amor](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/amor/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/eb5/jonathan-coe-10154_quote_me-gusta-la-lluvia-antes-de-caer-ya-s-qu_874161.jpg) > [I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/i-like-the-idea-of-a-big-caesura-between-the-narratives-a-space-which/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/81f/jonathan-coe-10154_bigs_i-like-the-idea-of-a-big-caesura-between_209485.jpg) > [Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/writers-never-feel-comfortable-having-labels-attached-to-them-however/) [Jonathan Coe](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/) [Image](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/df2/jonathan-coe-10154_accurate_writers-never-feel-comfortable-having-la_2890542.jpg) ## Jonathan Coe by topic [Books (11)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/books/jonathan-coe/) [Writing (10)](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/about/writing/jonathan-coe/) ```json { "@context": "https://schema.org", "@graph": [ { "@type": "ItemList", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jonathan-coe/#itemlist", "name": "Jonathan Coe Quotes", "numberOfItems": 40, "itemListElement": [ { "@type": "ListItem", "position": 1, "item": { "@type": "Quotation", "text": "Thatcherism has become bigger than she ever was.", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Coe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/thatcherism-has-become-bigger-than-she-ever-was/", "image": { 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Something which would enshrine his feelings for Cicely, and which she would perhaps hear, or read, or see in ten or twenty years' time, and suddenly realize, on her pulse, that it was created for her, intended for her, and that of all the boys who had swarmed around her like so many drones at school, Benjamin had been, without her having the wit to notice it, by far the purest in heart, by far the most gifted and giving. On that day the awareness of all she had missed, all she had lost, would finally break upon her in an instant, and she would weep; weep for her foolishness, and of the love that might have been between them. Of course, Benjamin could always just have spoken to her, gone up to her in the bus queue and asked her for a date. 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A familiarity based not on the sighting of particular landmarks, but on her feeling that the very contours of the hills and fields, and the very shapes and colours of the buildings, now appeared as surviving monuments to the existence of a much earlier self whom she had long forgotten. 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Duggie! Duggie!\" He came running up to me, sparkler in hand. I felt like sticking one on him, the cheeky bastard. Nobody called me Duggie. He held the sparkler up in front of my face and said, \"Wait. Wait.\" I was already waiting. What else was there to do? \"Here you are,\" he said. \"Look! What's this?\" At that precise moment, his sparkler fizzled out. I didn't say anything, so he supplied the answer himself. \"The death of the socialist dream,\" he said. He giggled like a little maniac, and stared at me for a second or two before running off, and in that time I saw exactly the same thing I'd seen in Stubbs's eyes the day before. The same triumphalism, the same excitement, not because something new was being created, but because something was being destroyed. I thought about Phillip and his stupid rock symphony and I swear that my eyes pricked with tears. This ludicrous attempt to squeeze the history of the countless millennia into half an hour's worth of crappy riffs and chord changes suddenly seemed no more Quixotic than all the things my dad and his colleagues had been working towards for so long. A national health service, free to everyone who needed it. Redistribution of wealth through taxation. Equality of opportunity. Beautiful ideas, Dad, noble aspirations, just as there was the kernel of something beautiful in Philip's musical hodge-podge. But it was never going to happen. If there had ever been a time when it might have happened, that time was slipping away. The moment had passed. Goodbye to all that. Easy to be clever with hindsight, I know, but I was right, wasn't I? Look back on that night from the perspective of now, the closing weeks of the closing century of our second millennium - if the calendar of some esoteric and fast-disappearing religious sect counts for anything any more - and you have to admit that I was right. And so was Benjamin's brother, the little bastard, with his sparkler and his horrible grin and that nasty gleam of incipient victory in his twelve-year-old eyes. Goodbye to all that, he was saying. He'd worked it out already. He knew what the future held in store.”", "creator": { "@type": "Person", "name": "Jonathan Coe" }, "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jonathan-coe/hey-duggie-duggie-duggie-he-came-running-up-to-me-sparkler-in-hand-i/", "image": { "@type": "ImageObject", "@id": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/jonathan-coe-10154_equality-of-opportun_hey-duggie-duggie-duggie-he-came-running_2433814.jpg", "contentUrl": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/jonathan-coe-10154_equality-of-opportun_hey-duggie-duggie-duggie-he-came-running_2433814.jpg", "url": "https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/027/jonathan-coe-10154_equality-of-opportun_hey-duggie-duggie-duggie-he-came-running_2433814.jpg", "width": 1080, "height": 1080, "caption": "“Hey - Duggie! Duggie! 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