"All the emails I get these days start……" — Jon McGregor
"All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other."
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21 Quotes by Jon McGregor
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If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.
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I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought…
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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.
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Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of…
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People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on…
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You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is…
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If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a…
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I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much…
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He thinks about her, at this moment, in her house, a few thin walls away, packing her life into boxes…
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