"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction,……" — Jonathan Coe
"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."
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35 Quotes by Jonathan Coe
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I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to…
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?
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As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became…
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But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short…
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But I have always - ever since The Accidental Woman - written novels about individuals attempting to make choices in…
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Contemporary Britain seems an endlessly fascinating place to me - but if I knew a little bit more about other…
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I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the…
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I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and…
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I like the idea of a big caesura between the narratives, a space which readers can fill in with their…
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Revisionist historians are about to get their hands on the Thatcher years, shes probably going to be looked at again…
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I had no sense of any reputation that What a Carve Up! might acquire - at the time I didnt…
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More Ah Quotes
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Ah, summer, what power you have to make us suffer and like it.
— Russell Baker
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
— Brendan Behan
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That is the true definition of sin; when knowing right you do the lower, ah, then you sin. Where there…
— Annie Besant
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I think that, ah, I'm a very goofy sort of person in many ways.
— Jeff Bezos
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Ah, lives of men! When prosperous they glitter - Like a fair picture; when misfortune comes - A wet sponge…
— Aeschylus
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Ah, but a man's reach should exceed his grasp, Or what's a heaven for?
— Robert Browning
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The normal profits of a business concern in the United States are six, eight, ten, and sometimes twelve percent. But…
— Smedley Butler
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Ah, how many luxuries has the good God prepared for his Jewish children.
— Sholom Aleichem
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Ah, mon cher, for anyone who is alone, without God and without a master, the weight of days is dreadful.
— Albert Camus
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Who in the world am I? Ah, that's the great puzzle.
— Lewis Carroll
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I just want people to remember me like I remember Buster Keaton. When they talk about Buster Keaton or Gene…
— Jackie Chan
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Ah, reality TV: where opportunists delight in exposing opportunism! It's kind of like the indie music scene.
— Diablo Cody
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