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Jonathan Coe

"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"I'm so involved in melancholy."

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Donna Grant

"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"Diabetes is caused by melancholy."

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Donna Grant

"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."

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Donna Grant

"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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Donna Grant

"He loved the extensive vaults where you could hear the night birds and the sea breeze; he loved the craggy ruins bound together by ivy, those dark halls, and any appearance of death and destruction. Having fallen so far from so high a position, he loved anything that had also fallen from a great height."

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Donna Grant

"There is a melancholy that stems from greatness."

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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."
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"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
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"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."
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"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
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"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!"
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"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."
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"As soon as you start writing about how human beings interact with each other socially, you're into politics, aren't you?"
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"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."
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"Writers never feel comfortable having labels attached to them, however accurate they are."
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