Beryl Bainbridge Citas

• Cuanto más viejo se es, más rápido se desvanece el presente en sepia y el pasado aparece en glorioso tecnicolor.

  Beryl Bainbridge

  Past, Glorious, Fades

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• Una vez aprendida la gramática, escribir es simplemente hablar por escrito y, con el tiempo, aprender lo que no hay que decir.

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  Writing, Talking, Paper

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• Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

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  Childhood, Fatherhood, Grows

  "Biography/Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• What we remember is probably fiction anyway.

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  Life, Fiction, Remember

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• I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everybody speaks. Once the grammar has been learnt it is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.

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  Book, Writing, Talking

  1976 In D L Kirkpatrick (ed) Contemporary Novelists.

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• It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

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  Lying, Generations, Stealing

  Beryl Bainbridge (1981). “A weekend with Claude”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• Being constantly with children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.

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  Children, Shoes, Pairs

  1977 Injury Time, ch.4.

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• There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

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  Men, Sky, Essentials

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.65, Hachette UK

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• Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.

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  Hombres, Pensar, Diferente

  1996 Interview in the Daily Telegraph,10 Sep.

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• Cuando la pasión es mutua, siempre existe el peligro de que el fuego se reduzca a cenizas.

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  Passion, Fire, Ashes

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Master Georgie”, p.81, Hachette UK

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• It seems to me that a mutually beneficial relationship between a man and woman requires the man to be dominant. A sensible woman will allow the man to think he is the most important partner.

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  Men, Thinking, Important

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• The prize I value most was given to me 60 years ago. I was named the girl with the cleanest fingernails.

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  Girl, Years, Given

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• Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.

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  Views, World, Emotion

  Beryl Bainbridge (1989). “An awfully big adventure”, Gerald Duckworth & Company

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• Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.

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  Fall, Moon, Snow

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.181, Penguin UK

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• I've never been drawn to the feminist movement. I was brought up to believe that men had little to do with the home or children - except to bring in the money.

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  Niños, Creer, Hogar

  "Young, successful, well paid: are they killing feminism?" by Anushka Asthana, Denis Campbell, www.theguardian.com. March 25, 2006.

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• The vital accessories to my work are my reference books, such as the complete Shakespeare and a prayer book, and a large refuse bin.

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  Prayer, Book, Accessories

  1991 In The Guardian, 8 Aug.

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• There are many things in this life capable of throwing people off course - the death of someone close, the loss of income or health, the realisation that cherished hopes cannot always be fulfilled

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  Loss, People, Income

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• nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.

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  Age, Injustice, So Sad

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• Nunca he sido menospreciada por un hombre, a menos que me lo mereciera, y nunca me he sentido inferior.

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  Men, Inferiors, Felt

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• no one had experiences any more, only traumas.

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  Trauma, Exaggeration

  Beryl Bainbridge (1967). “A Weekend with Claud”

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• Well, I woke up one morning around Christmas, went as far as the shops, and when I got to the corner I felt this violent pain in me left leg. I mentioned it to my daughter and she took me instantly to the hospital. It turned out it was vasculitis. In other words, you can have your leg off.

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  Daughter, Morning, Pain

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• The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.

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  Sun, Warmth

  Beryl Bainbridge (2010). “Another Part of the Wood”, p.154, Penguin UK

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