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Graham Swift

Data di nascita: 4. Maggio 1949

Graham Colin Swift è uno scrittore britannico.

Studiò al Dulwich College e poi al Queens' College di Cambridge.

Nel 1996, Swift vinse il James Tait Black Memorial Prize e il Premio Booker con Ultimo giro . Waterland invece è considerato uno dei migliori romanzi britannici del secondo dopoguerra ed è studiato negli istituti di Letteratura inglese.

Alcuni dei suoi libri sono stati trasposti in film, come Ultimo giro e Waterland - Memorie d'amore .

Frasi Graham Swift

Graham Swift2
scrittore britannico 1949
„Un uomo è solo un nome. Un nome che ha un significato per il tizio a cui è attaccato e per tutti quelli che ragionano nei termini del corso di una vita, ma al di là di questo non vale una cicca frusta.“da Ultimo giro
Graham Swift2
scrittore britannico 1949
„La gente non legge forse i libri per fuggire da se stessa, e per tenere lontani i guai che ne scandiscono l'esistenza?“Mothering Sunday
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„How quick and rushing life can sometimes seem, when at the same time it's so slow and sweet and everlasting.“Tomorrow
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„Children, be curious. Nothing is worse (I know it) than when curiosity stops. Nothing is more repressive than the repression of curiosity. Curiosity begets love. It weds us to the world. It's part of our perverse, madcap love for this impossible planet we inhabit. People die when curiosity goes. People have to find out, people have to know.“Waterland
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.“Waterland
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor history. But man - let me offer you a definition - is the storytelling animal. Wherever he goes he wants to leave behind not a chaotic wake, not an empty space, but the comforting marker-buoys and trail-signs of stories. He has to go on telling stories. He has to keep on making them up. As long as there's a story, it's all right. Even in his last moments, it's said, in the split second of a fatal fall - or when he's about to drown - he sees, passing rapidly before him, the story of his whole life.“Waterland
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„That's the way it is: life includes a lot of empty space. We are one-tenth living tissue, nine-tenths water; life is one-tenth Here and Now, nine-tenths a history lesson. For most of the time the Here and Now is neither now nor here.“Waterland
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„Pillow talk. It's how you know, it's how you tell, that something different, something special is happening: that this might even be the most important night of your life. Some day -some night- I hope you both may know it, with whoever it may be: the wish, stealing up on you, not to just merge bodies, but all you have, all your years, all your memories up to that point. And why should you wish to do that, if you haven't already guessed that your future too, will be shared?“Tomorrow
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„Why is it that every so often history demands a bloodbath, a holocaust, an Armageddon? And why is it that every time the time before has taught us nothing?“Waterland
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„And I didn't know I loved her till I'd dreamt of her. I didn't know it was the real thing until an illusion had signalled it.“Ever After
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„There has always been, for me, this other world, this second world to fall back on--a more reliable world in so far as it does not hide that its premise is illusion.“Ever After
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat monotony of reality; the wide empty space of reality. Melancholia and self-murder are not unknown in the Fens. Heavy drinking, madness and sudden acts of violence are not uncommon. How do you surmount reality, children? How do you acquire, in a flat country, the tonic of elevated feelings?“Waterland
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„When people aren't expecting to be seen, they look their truest.“
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„If you can't stand your own company alone in a room for long hours, or, when it gets tough, the feeling of being in a locked cell, or, when it gets tougher still, the vague feeling of being buried alive--then don't be a writer.“
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„Life goes on. It doesn't go on. Yes, yes, I know, all we want in the end, we living, breathing creatures (am I still one of them?) is life. All we want to believe in is the persistence and vitality of life. Faced with the choice between death and the merest hint of life, what scrap, what token wouldn't we cling to in order to keep that belief? A leaf? A single moist, green leaf? That will do, that will be enough.“Ever After
Graham Swift57
English writer 1949
„How we forgive narrowness of mind, when it accompanies largeness of heart. Yet no breadth of intellect exonerates want of feeling.“Ever After

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