"As soon as you start writing about how……" — Jonathan Coe
"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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35 Quotes by Jonathan Coe
Jonathan Coe has 35 quotes on this site.
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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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Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem.
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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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When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress…
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Films and television and even comic books are churning out vast quantities of fictional narratives, and the public continues to…
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The things that people do now in sports, you can't even believe. These are complete total athletes. To see what…
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is…
— Karen Armstrong
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But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place…
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Guns are evil! And very little good comes from the availability of a bullet designed to kill human beings!
— Mackenzie Astin
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It's extraordinary how self-obsessed human beings are. The things that people always go on about is, 'tell us about us',…
— David Attenborough
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Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the…
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I am truly free only when all human beings, men and women, are equally free. The freedom of other men,…
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Pessimists are the people who have no hope for themselves or for others. Pessimists are also people who think the…
— James A. Baldwin
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What is a child, monsieur, but the image of two beings, the fruit of two sentiments spontaneously blended?
— Honore de Balzac
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Human beings, who are almost unique in having the ability to learn from the experience of others, are also remarkable…
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