Graham Swift Quotes

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People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know. How can there be any true revolution till we know what we are made of?

Graham Swift
All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

Graham Swift
You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terribly, drastically wrong, but because someone else is in charge, because there is a part of the system above you which you don't know, you don't question it, you even distrust your own doubts.

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Life is one tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.

Graham Swift
Crying's like pissing. You don't want to get caught short.

Graham Swift
If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive-then don't be a writer.

Graham Swift
There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on—a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.

Graham Swift
And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.

Graham Swift
How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.

Graham Swift
When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.

Graham Swift
I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively, and something goes on in their thoughts which must be equivalent to the way dogs and other animals, when they meet, sniff each other's arses and nuzzle each other's fur.

Graham Swift