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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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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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"Nothing's so dainty sweet as lovely melancholy."
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"I'm so involved in melancholy."
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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"My heart almost died within me; miserable longings strained its chords. How long were the September days! How silent, how lifeless!"
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"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
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"I enjoy melancholic music and art. They take me to places I don't normally get to go."
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"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."
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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."
Books
"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
Writing
"I live a perfectly happy and comfortable life in Blair's Britain, but I can't work up much affection for the culture we've created for ourselves: it's too cynical, too knowing, too ironic, too empty of real value and meaning."
Life
"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
Politics
"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
Melancholy
"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."
Writing
"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
"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."
Time
"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
Politics
"The biggest markets for my books outside the UK are France and Italy, and those are the two countries where I also have the closest personal relationships with my translators - I don't know whether that's a coincidence, or if there's something to be learned from it."
Books
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