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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
Time
"As the books grew bigger and more ambitious, the situations in question sometimes became political ones, and so it became necessary to start painting in the social background on a scale which eventually became panoramic."
Books
"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."
Talent
"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."
Johnson
"I think it's also the case that I'm not as widely travelled, or as well-educated in history, as most of the other novelists I meet: so I have to write about my own country, at the present time, because it's more or less all I know about!"
History
"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."
Life
"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
Politics
"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."
Writing
"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."
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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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"Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy."
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"Melancholy, indeed, should be diverted by every means but drinking."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"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."
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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"Before the house-maid had lit the fire the next day, or the sun gained any power over the cold, gloomy morning in January, Marianne, only half dressed, was kneeling against one of the window-seats for the sake of all the little light she could command from it, and writing as fast as a continual flow of tears would permit her."
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"Darkness all around, smoke in between my fingers, all you have given me dear, sorrow and sadness to sing here."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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