"When I was 20 I was immensely proud of the rows of grey-spined Penguin Modern Classics in my bookcase."

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Linda Grant

#Proud Quotes #Penguins Quotes #Modern Quotes

“Every man has a right to risk his own life for the preservation of it.”
“The very essence of martial arts is the thirst for knowledge and the truth about ourselves.”
“We move through the day like two hands of a clock: sometimes we overlap for a moment, then come apart again, carrying on alone. Everyday exactly the same: the tea, the burnt toast, the crumbs, the silence.”
“My family always makes a huge deal out of Christmas.”
“I think if you live in London, it's such a cosmopolitan city; nobody even notices different-race relationships. I assumed it would be even more liberal in the States, and it's totally the opposite.”

Source : "Intensive care". Interview with Barbara Ellen, www.theguardian.com. July 7, 2002.
“The British hamburger thus symbolised, with savage neatness, the country's failure to provide its ordinary people with food which did anything more for them than sustain life.”
“As the thought comes to me to exorcise and transform this black with a white drawing, it has already become a surface.. .Now I have lost all fear, and begin to draw on the black surface.”
“What I'm very upset about is the attempt to dictate to museums what they show, and the statements made by politicians in Washington that have curtailed the freedom of the National Endowment for the Arts. The attention to those issues is deflected by the spin of my supposedly having trivialized the Holocaust.”

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