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Quote by Graham Swift
The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but

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 all use and to make amazing things occur. – Graham Swift

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In my work you often get an abrupt shift in time, a jolt. But the emotional logic will take the reader on. I hope. I trust. After all, our memories do not work with any sequential logic. – Graham Swift

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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see it as just in the air to be taken, and to lose the sense that somebody once made it. – Graham Swift

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alone
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I loved hip-hop. The first stuff I heard was Public Enemy, and I couldnt believe it. It was amazing, and Ive always loved hip-hop. – Joaquin Phoenix

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My Movember moustache was never going to be as big as Nigel Mansells, but I tried my best. The amazing thing is that when you try to grow a moustache, you notice everyone elses. There are some amazing moustaches on the grid. – Jenson Button

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I feel like writing a book theres always a version in your head thats an amazing version, but then you write the version that you can write. – Karen Thompson Walker

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If you think you dont want to play another psychopath, but the script is amazing, and the director is fantastic, and the story is incredible, then you may end up playing your third psychopath in a row. – Damian Lewis

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