"Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers -……" — Graham Swift
"Ah, children, pity level-crossing keepers, pity lock-keepers - pity lighthouse-keepers - pity all the keepers of this world (pity even school teachers), caught between their conscience and the bleak horizon..."
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50 Quotes by Graham Swift
Graham Swift has 50 quotes on this site.
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People die when curiosity goes.
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If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the…
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as…
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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of…
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When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.
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There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can…
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What does education do, what does it have to offer, when deprived of its necessary partner, the future, and face…
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I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and…
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Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It's really done…
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I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the…
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I can do hieroglyphics in the margin. There are days when I really enjoy the flow of ink. I mean,…
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More Ah Quotes
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
— Jeff Bezos
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But…
— Smedley Butler
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Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
— Sholom Aleichem
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
— Lewis Carroll
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene…
— Jackie Chan
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Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
— Diablo Cody
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