Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

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Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

Beryl Bainbridge
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

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All her life she had found that when she went to a great deal of trouble, the results were never satisfactory; her greatest triumphs had been accidental.

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After she wrote her first two novels:
I thought I'd walk down the street and everybody would know I had written a book. But nobody took any notice of these two novels, and I stopped writing. I felt uneasy for about three years.

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I don't go to a second paragraph until the first paragraph has been written ten or twelve times.

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Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

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Some people like being burdened. It gives them an interest.

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There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

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I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

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She had a curiously intense stare, like a greedy child waiting for sweets.

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Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

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When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.

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Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

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The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

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A man is two people, himself and his cock. A man always takes his friend to the party. Of the two, the friend is the nicer, being more able to show his feelings.

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It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

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The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolor.

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