Blake Morrison Quotes

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A hope of something beyond our place and time. This is what books - the best books - give us: a lifeline, a reason to believe, a way to breathe more freely.

Blake Morrison

The selective memory isn't selective enough.

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Every age has its own story, or rewrites the same story; every Age too.

Blake Morrison

Without art, confessionalism is masturbation.

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Certainly, porn has its uses: like a pet dog, it can console the lonely; like oysters, it can sharpen a lover's appetite; like cocoa, it can get the restless off to sleep.

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Editing might be a bloody trade, but knives aren't the exclusive property of butchers. Surgeons use them too.

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By sparing the rod we've bred a generation of hoodlums. Cherub-faced muggers. Rapists who don't have pubic hair yet. Pre-pubescents with glittering knives. What's childhood coming to? Keep your kids well back. Childhood's not a place for children.

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A child in my lap, being read to, and I find myself erect.

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Blake Morrison

Blake Morrison

Born: October 8, 1950 (age 74)

Bio: Philip Blake Morrison is a British poet and author who has published in a wide range of fiction and non-fiction genres. His greatest success came with the publication of his memoirs And When Did You Last See Your Father? which won the J. R.

Known for:

Things my mother never told me (2002)
As if (1997)
The Last Weekend (2010)
The justification of Johann Gutenberg (2000)
We are Three Sisters (2011)

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