Jon McGregor quotes

The whole city stopped - And this is a pause worth savouring, because the world will soon be complicated again. (Jon McGregor)
there are only these: sparkling eyes, smudged lipstick, fading starlight, the crunching of feet on gravel, laughter, and a slow walk home. View quote
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Everybodys got their own situation and their own needs. View quote
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All the emails I get these days start with sorry but I've been so busy, and I don't understand how we can be so busy and then have nothing to say to each other. View quote
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Last week I was just someone who had had a first novel published. View quote
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I wonder how many ways there are for a mother to produce that wreckage in her own daughter, and my muscles tense as I think of them. View quote
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People seem to be losing their sense of boundaries more and more, what people are willing to put up on the internet, especially blogs. People seem to assume that only their friends are going to read it but anyone in the world could read it at any time. View quote
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It is something I recognise in myself. I do eavesdrop. I do people-watch, a lot. View quote
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It takes a lot of energy and creativity to make such screwed up lives carry on. And the kind of will people have to survive, year after year, dealing with that stuff, is weirdly impressive. View quote
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