"There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t……" — Graham Swift
"There’s this thing called progress. But it doesn’t progress. It doesn’t go anywhere. Because as progress progresses the world can slip away. It’s progress if you can stop the world slipping away. My humble model for progress I the reclamation of land. Which is repeatedly, never-ending retrieving what it lost. A dogged and vigilant business. A dull yet valuable business. A hard, inglorious business. But you shouldn’t go mistaking the reclamation of land for the building of empires."
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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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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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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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Literature is the voice of the human heart.
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