"I was mainly in a state of nervousness……" — Jonathan Coe
"I was mainly in a state of nervousness while I wrote it - nervousness that it was far bigger and more complicated than anything Id attempted before, and that maybe my talent just wasnt up to it and the book would have to be abandoned, or would turn out not to work at all when it was finished."
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35 Quotes by Jonathan Coe
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I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood.
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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 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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The class distinctions proper to a democratic society are not those of rank or money, still less, as is apt…
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Some tribes of birds will relieve and rear up the young and helpless, of their own and other tribes, when…
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Basic human contact - the meeting of eyes, the exchanging of words - is to the psyche what oxygen is…
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My whole life I've had the fear that I was going to be abandoned.
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As individuals and as a nation, we now suffer from social narcissism. The beloved Echo of our ancestors, the virgin…
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The condition of the tribes which occupy the country set apart for them in the West is highly prosperous, and…
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Hitler never abandoned the cloak of legality; he recognized the enormous psychological value of having the law on his side.…
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After the Berlin Wall came down I visited that city and I will never forget it. The abandoned checkpoints. The…
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Here is the tragedy: when you are the victim of depression, not only do you feel utterly helpless and abandoned…
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Becoming a mother makes you the mother of all children. From now on each wounded, abandoned, frightened child is yours.…
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Day after day we looked for rain, and day after day we saw nothing but the sun. Lavender that we…
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