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Own Quotes by Jonathan Coe
- I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their own speculative history.
- The plain fact is that she never really liked me, and never wanted me. I had been a mistake; and that, to some extent, is…
- Sometimes I feel that I am destined always to be offstage whenever the main action occurs. That God has made me the victim of some…
- 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 novelists I meet:…
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