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
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… - Beryl Bainbridge
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…
- Beryl Bainbridge
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood. - Beryl Bainbridge
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
What we remember is probably fiction anyway. - Beryl Bainbridge
What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. - Beryl Bainbridge
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say. - Beryl Bainbridge
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction. - Beryl Bainbridge
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different. - Beryl Bainbridge
Women are programmed to love completely, and men are programmed to spread it around. We are fools to think it's any different.
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 bee… - Beryl Bainbridge
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 bee…
I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior. - Beryl Bainbridge
I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior.
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