"You must always look with both of your……" — Jon McGregor
"You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?"
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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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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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She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary…
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