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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."
"In applying this subject to the melancholy event, which has deprived this Diocese of its venerable Bishop, we presume not to compare him with the blessed Apostle, of whom we have been speaking."
"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
"Whenever I find myself growing grim about the mouth; whenever it is a damp, drizzly November in my soul; whenever i find myself involuntarily pausing before coffin warehouses, and bringing up the rear of every funeral I meet... I quietly take to the ship. There is nothing surprising in this. If they but knew it, almost all men in their degree, some time or other, cherish very nearly the same feelings towards the ocean with me."
"For the music to be over so soon. For the music to be over when it had just begun. That was really sad."
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"The writer I feel the most affinity with - you said you felt my books are 19th century novels, I think they're 18th century novels - is Fielding, Henry Fielding, he's the guy who does it for me."
"I have two ideas for novels at the moment, neither of them all that conventional, but I'm not ready to choose between them yet, let alone settle down to the process of writing."
"It's only a drawback in the States, where most people seem to have no real interest in other countries and the notion of a novel which might offer insight into life in the UK doesn't seem to appeal very widely."
"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."
"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
"But at the same time, I have trouble keeping things out of books, which is why I don't write short stories because they turn into novels."
"I became quite taken over by Johnson's personality at some points while writing the biography, and since I went straight on to The Closed Circle afterwards, I did sometimes feel I could hear him whispering in my ear while I was working on it."
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