Beryl Bainbridge Quotes

• Bugger the writing, I’d have given anything to have had a long-lasting relationship.

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• Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around.

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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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• It’s all changed now, which is why it mattered to those young men from Liverpool that they should be there to support their team.What other group is going to troop their colours for them, present them with scarves and emblems?

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• I haven’t the humility to find anything beneath me.

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• We are essentially fragile.We don’t have to wait for the sword or some other equally sensational weapon to strike us down… There are so many ways of us dying it’s astonishing any of us choose old age.

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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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• 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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• 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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• When I got a telly we had no aerial, but I discovered that if I or one of the children stood by it you could get a picture. So I had to make a statue that could stand by the telly.

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

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Beryl Bainbridge (13)

Birth:	21st November, 1932
Death:	2nd July, 2010
Nationality:	British
Profession:	Novelist

About

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge was an English writer from Liverpool. She was primarily known for her works of psychological fiction, often set among the English working classes. Bainbridge won the Whitbread Awards prize for best novel in 1977 and 1996; she was nominated five times for the Booker Prize. She was described in 2007 as "a national treasure".

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