"I think what I like to do is……" — Graham Swift
"I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it."
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50 Quotes by Graham Swift
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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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I don't think of poetry as a 'rational' activity but as an aural one. My poems usually begin with words…
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Do you wish to rise? Begin by descending. You plan a tower that will pierce the clouds? Lay first the…
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Do you wish to be great? Then begin by being. Do you desire to construct a vast and lofty fabric?…
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Begin - to begin is half the work, let half still remain; again begin this, and thou wilt have finished.
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If a man will begin with certainties, he shall end in doubts, but if he will content to begin with…
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