"I share my name with an aerobatic bird……" — Graham Swift
"I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope with being stationary."
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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 Across Quotes
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Genres aren't closed boxes. Stuff flows back and forth across the borders all the time.
— Margaret Atwood
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I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, 'Nobody…
— Margaret Atwood
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The School Energy Crisis Relief Act authorizes the Secretary of Energy to issue energy assistance grants to help the poorest…
— Joe Baca
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A few years ago, I bought an old red bicycle with the words Free Spirit written across its side -…
— Drew Barrymore
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According to some Eastern religion, there is a belt that goes across the world, and I've heard that Minnesota is…
— Melody Beattie
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As freedom-loving people across the globe hope for an end to tyranny, we will never forget the enormous suffering of…
— Bob Beauprez
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When Whitney Houston died, I felt great sadness. My sadness, of course, was about our collective loss - when you…
— James Belushi
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Emigration, forced or chosen, across national frontiers or from village to metropolis, is the quintessential experience of our time.
— John Berger
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The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse…
— Daniel Berrigan
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Philately is normally a boys' hobby but for some reason it was in vogue at my junior school. Between the…
— Sophie Ellis Bextor
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If across the Atlantic the ideology was pride, here it is delivering the goods.
— Theodor Adorno
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But it's not just the cattle producers, it's all the attendant industries like transport and shipping and feed producers and…
— Julie Bishop
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