"When I was 20 I was immensely proud……" — Linda Grant
"When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase."
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Linda Grant
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11 Quotes by Linda Grant
Linda Grant has 11 quotes on this site.
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Clothes as text, clothes as narration, clothes as a story. Clothes as the story of our lives. And if you…
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I realized how for all of us who came of age in the late sixties and early seventies the war…
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I'm a really hectic dreamer; I never wake up not out of a dream, and there's loads going on, lots…
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I am not by any stretch of the imagination a tidy person, and the piles of unread books on the…
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The legacy of women's war work is our present post-industrial employment structure. It was the war that created the demand…
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I was embarrassed by my parents. I thought they had nothing of interest to say or contribute to anything. My…
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When I was in my 20s in the 1970s, I read all of Jean Rhys. I have reread very little…
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When I was a child, on Sunday mornings the family would assemble around the blue-leather-covered gramophone to listen to records.
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Times were very hard if you were a poor, politically correct Jewish girl living in the east end of London…
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Many of us, whether in the jungles of Asia or on the streets of Chicago, had discovered that noble causes…
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More Bookcase Quotes
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one of 26 quotes in that category. Here are a few more:
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I own a hundred and fifty books, but I have no bookcase. Nobody will lend me a bookcase.
— Henny Youngman
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The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait.
— Anatole Broyard
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A bookcase is as good as a view, as much of a panorama as the sight of a city or…
— Anatole Broyard
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A knife can be a symbol, but it also better be able to cut string. And if it represent cutting…
— Ansen Dibell
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My father always says, ‘Never trust anyone who has a TV bigger than their bookshelf.’ So I make sure I…
— Emilia Clarke
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The Pulitzer has nothing to do with me; it's more about people's perceptions of me, whatever they may be. I'm…
— David Lindsay-Abaire
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I think that my love of cooking grew out of my love of reading about cooking. When I was a…
— Samantha Bee
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I am a product of endless books. My father bought all the books he read and never got rid of…
— C.S. Lewis
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He [Hemingway] used a stand-up work place he had fashioned out of the top of of a bookcase near his…
— A. E. Hotchner
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So, please, oh please, we beg, we pray, go throw your TV set away, and in its place you can…
— Roald Dahl
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I found a Bill Evans record in the bookcase and was listening to it while drying my hair when I…
— Haruki Murakami
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A man's bookcase will tell you everything you'll ever need to know about him," my father had told me more…
— Walter Mosley
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