"The more melancholy side of my literary personality……" — Jonathan Coe
"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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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 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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More Johnson Quotes
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one of 241 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I don't know what that gas is made of, but it can't smell any worse than Ernie Johnson 's gym…
— Charles Barkley
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The best player I ever played with was Dennis Johnson.
— Larry Bird
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But I've got to think of myself as the luckiest guy. Robert Johnson only had one album's worth of work…
— David Bowie
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My problem was that I was blond. There were no heroes with blond hair. Robert Taylor and Henry Fonda, they…
— Michael Caine
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Everyone believed the Senate could not really be led. It used to take so long to rise up through seniority.…
— Robert Caro
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During the Samuel Johnson days they had big men enjoying small talk; today we have small men enjoying big talk.
— Fred Allen
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Andrew Johnson was a Southerner generally who proclaimed that his native state of Tennessee was a country for white men.
— Stephen Ambrose
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I thought Nixon was the worst President we had ever had, save only perhaps Andrew Johnson.
— Stephen Ambrose
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Johnson had been the most powerful man in the world, yet the North Vietnamese and the Vietcong had resisted, overcome…
— Stephen Ambrose
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The Petition of Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, Chapman Johnson, Joseph C. Cabell, James Breckenridge, John Hartwell Cocke, and Robert Taylor…
— Thomas Jefferson
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Tell the Truth, and speak from your pay-grade. Don't try to answer questions that would better be directed to the…
— Hal Moore
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A lot of people I meet say, 'You remind me so much of Magic Johnson.'
— Carmelo Anthony
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