Jon McGregor Quotes

• Si escuchas, puedes oírlo. La ciudad, canta. Si te quedas quieto, al pie de un jardín, en medio de la calle, en el tejado de una casa. Es más claro por la noche, cuando el sonido atraviesa más nítidamente la superficie de las cosas, cuando la canción llega a un lugar dentro de ti. Es una canción sin palabras, en su mayoría, pero es una canción al fin y al cabo, y nadie que la escuche podría dudar de lo que canta. Y la canción canta más fuerte cuando tú eliges cada nota.

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  Song, Cutting, Night

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.8, HMH

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• You must always look with both of your eyes and listen with both of your ears. He says this is a very big world and there are many many things you could miss if you are not careful. There are remarkable things all the time, right in front of us, but our eyes have like the clouds over the sun and our lives are paler and poorer if we do not see them for what they are. If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

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  Eye, Clouds, Missing

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• If nobody speaks of remarkable things, how can they be called remarkable?

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  Speech, Speak, Remarkable

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• There are so many people in the world, and I want to know them all but I don’t even know my next-door neighbor’s name.

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  Doors, Names, People

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• The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again.

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  Cities, World, Complicated

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.12, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I say too much of what, he says too much of everything, too much stuff, too many places, too much information, too many people, too much of things for there to be too much of, there is too much to know and I don't know where to begin but I want to try.

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  Gente, Intentar, Querer

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.223, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• He says when your grandmother died your mother cried solidly for a week, solidly. She was crying with relief he says, it was like as if a door had been unlocked and she'd been let outside, she said to me I'm safe now. He waits, and he says this kid, when it's born, you mustn't ever let it think it's anything other than a gift and a blessing, do you hear me?

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  Mother, Kids, Blessing

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.177, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Piensa en ella, en este momento, en su casa, a unos cuantos muros de distancia, empaquetando su vida en cajas y bolsas, y se pregunta qué recuerdos estará redescubriendo, qué pensamientos se le estarán quedando en la boca como el polvo que se levanta de los libros de texto en desuso. Se pregunta si habrá enterrado algún rastro de sí misma bajo las tablas del suelo. Se pregunta cuáles serían esos rastros si los hubiera enterrado. Y vuelve a preguntarse por qué piensa tanto en ella cuando sabe tan poco en qué pensar.

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  Wall, Memories, Thinking

  Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.89, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home.

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  Laughter, Home, Eye

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.13, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs.

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  Needs, Situation

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• All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other.

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  Sorry, Email, Busy

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.33, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published.

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  Lasts, Firsts, Week

  "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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• I'm surprised, but I'm glad, I realise that this is what i wanted that night last week, to simply make a connection and keep hold of it.

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  Night, Connections, Lasts

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.268, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them.

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  Hija, Madre, Pensamiento

  Jon McGregor (2012). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.182, Bloomsbury Publishing

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• She wonders if you can feel nostalgic for something before it's in the past, she wonders if perhaps her vocabulary is too small or if her chemical intake has corroded it and the music goes doowoah doowoah.

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  Past, Vocabulary, Wonder

  Jon McGregor (2014). “If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things”, p.38, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time.

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  People, World, Losing

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• I once saw a picture in the paper of John Hegley with 'poet' written on his knuckles, and I thought that was pretty cool, so I was quite up front about it.

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  Knuckles, Saws, Paper

  "New kid on the block" by Matt Seaton, www.theguardian.com. August 19, 2002.

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• It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot.

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  People, Watches, Recognise

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• Now that I've had a book published, it is quite validating, but a bit embarrassing.

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  Book, Embarrassing, Bits

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• It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive.

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  Creativity, Years, People

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