There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky. - Beryl Bainbridge - Quotesmemo.com

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You ever have that feeling? Like you’ve known someone your whole life but you don’t know them at all.

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Beryl Bainbridge

There is nothing more guaranteed to reduce a man to the essentials than to live beneath the sky.

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

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Everything else you grow out of, but you never recover from childhood.

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It is the generation of the unemphatic. Steal, kill, lie, fornicate, but beware of indulging with conviction.

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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.

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