Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Past, Glorious, Fades

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• Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Writing, Talking, Paper

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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Childhood, Fatherhood, Grows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Life, Fiction, Remember

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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, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Book, Writing, Talking

  1976 In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Lying, Generations, Stealing

  Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• Being constantly with 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

  Children, Shoes, Pairs

  1977 Injury Time, ch.4.

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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Sky, Essentials

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK

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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.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Thinking, Different

  1996 Interview in the Daily Telegraph,10 Sep.

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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Passion, Fire, Ashes

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Thinking, Important

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• The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Girl, Years, Given

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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Views, World, Emotion

  Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Fall, Moon, Snow

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Children, Believe, Home

  "Young, successful, well paid: are they killing feminism?" by Anushka Asthana, Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.

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• The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Prayer, Book, Accessories

  1991 In The Guardian, 8 Aug.

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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

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Loss, People, Income

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• nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Age, Injustice, So Sad

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• I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Men, Inferiors, Felt

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• no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Trauma, Exaggeration

  Beryl Bainbridge (1967). “A Weekend with Claud”

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• Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Daughter, Morning, Pain

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• The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Sun, Warmth

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.154, Penguin UK

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