Beryl Bainbridge famous quotes

04-17-2025

The older one becomes the quicker the present fades into sepia and the past looms up in glorious technicolour
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Past #Glorious
Once the grammar has been learned, writing is simply talking on paper and in time learning what not to say.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Writing #Talking #Paper
I've never been put down by a man, unless I deserved it, and have never felt inferior,
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Men
When passion is mutual, there is always the danger of the fire burning to ashes.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Passion #Fire #Ashes
Moonlight lined the windowsills like a fall of snow.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Fall #Moon #Snow
nothing is so sad as the injustices of old age.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Age #Injustice #So Sad
Emotions weren't like washing. There was no call to peg them out for all the world to view.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Views #World #Emotion
The sun burnt on, drugging everything with warmth.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Sun #Warmth
There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Men #Sky #Essentials
It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Lying #Generations #Stealing
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

#Men #Thinking #Different
no one had experiences any more, only traumas.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Trauma #Exaggeration
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.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Children #Shoes #Pairs
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.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Daughter #Morning #Pain
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.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Men #Thinking #Important
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.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Children #Believe #Home
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
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Loss #People #Income
Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Childhood #Grows
What we remember is probably fiction anyway.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Life #Fiction #Remember
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.
-- Beryl Bainbridge

#Book #Writing #Talking

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