Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared?
Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought. - Graham Swift
Happiness quells thought. And work quells thought.
- Graham Swift
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we… - Graham Swift
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do extraordinary things. To use the language that we…
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of rea… - Graham Swift
Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of rea…
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it. - Graham Swift
I think what I like to do is to begin with the ordinary and find the extraordinary in it.
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past. - Graham Swift
What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.' - Graham Swift
Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane man saying 'You're mad, you're mad.'
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff. - Graham Swift
I like the world we've got. If there is anything special and magical, I have to find it in the ordinary stuff.
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope… - Graham Swift
I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift is so equipped for speed that it can scarcely cope…
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all,… - Graham Swift
As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other ways, I'm not always articulate. I think we are all,…
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