"If you listen, you can hear it. The……" — Jon McGregor
"If you listen, you can hear it. The city, it sings. If you stand quietly, at the foot of a garden, in the middle of the street, on the roof of a house. It's clearest at night, when the sound cuts more sharply across the surface of things, when the song reaches out to a place inside you. It's a wordless song, for the most, but it's a song all the same, and nobody hearing it could doubt what it sings. And the song sings the loudest when you pick out each note."
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21 Quotes by Jon McGregor
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.
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Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.
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