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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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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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"Melancholy is as seductive as Ecstasy."
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"Do tears not yet spilledwait in small lakes?Or are they invisible riversthat run toward sadness?"
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"Melancholy held me hostage, and the bees built a hive of sadness in my soul."
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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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"Pensive they sit, and roll their languid eyes."
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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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"The cello is such a melancholy instrument, such an isolated, miserable instrument."
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"Melancholy is no bad thing."
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"But you can try to read books at the wrong time or for the wrong reasons."
Time
"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
"Ah, well, I have no talent for nonfiction, that's my problem."
Talent
"Luckily, in my case, I have managed, by writing, to do the one thing that I always wanted to do."
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."
Books
"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
"You would go mad if you began to speculate about the impact your novel might have while you were still writing it."
Writing
"But we are entitled to look for continuity in politics."
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"The more melancholy side of my literary personality is much in tune with BS Johnson's."
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"I'm one of those unlucky people who had a happy childhood."
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