"How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem,……" — Graham Swift
"How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting."
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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 Everlasting Quotes
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one of 427 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.
— Marcus Aurelius
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Each thing is of like form from everlasting and comes round again in its cycle.
— Marcus Aurelius
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God pardons like a mother, who kisses the offense into everlasting forgiveness.
— Henry Ward Beecher
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It is cruel, you know, that music should be so beautiful. It has the beauty of loneliness of pain: of…
— Benjamin Britten
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Everywhere the human soul stands between a hemisphere of light and another of darkness; on the confines of the two…
— Thomas Carlyle
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Tattooing is my social life, too, so most of my time is taken up with that. People like Henry Lewis,…
— Margaret Cho
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Progress is Providence without God. That is, it is a theory that everything has always perpetually gone right by accident.…
— Gilbert K. Chesterton
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I shall never forget my mother, for it was she who planted and nurtured the first seeds of good within…
— Immanuel Kant
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O God! if I worship Thee in fear of Hell, burn me in Hell; and if I worship Thee in…
— Rabia Basri
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Water from a fountain quenches the excessive heat which would destroy this life. Thus water can be called the only…
— Unknown Author
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The stern hand of fate has scourged us to an elevation where we can see the great everlasting things which…
— David Lloyd George
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Line by line, moment by moment, special times are etched into our memories in the permanent ink of everlasting love…
— Gloria Gaither
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