Graham Swift quote: "All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself."

I came from a lower-middle-class postwar family in a time of austerity and retrenchment, with no one...
GRAHAM SWIFT

I am struck by the way people behave on the Tube. They look at each other beadily and inquisitively,...
GRAHAM SWIFT

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rut...
GRAHAM SWIFT

The real art is not to come up with extraordinary clever words but to make ordinary simple words do ...
GRAHAM SWIFT

I had a fear of becoming anything, a fear of becoming a specialist. I might have become a doctor, bu...
GRAHAM SWIFT

You may have your suspicions, your fears, you may even believe there is something, somewhere, terrib...
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There is a certain inescapable attachment. If you are born somewhere and circumstances don't tak...
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When anything goes digital, let alone something as immaterial as a book, there is a tendency to see ...
GRAHAM SWIFT

As a novelist, I suppose I can say that I'm highly articulate. But I know, as a person, in other...
GRAHAM SWIFT

Because each of those numberless non-participants was doubtless concerned with raising in the flatne...
GRAHAM SWIFT

People die when curiosity goes
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It can be dismaying, all the same, for a novelist to compare the slowness of the writing with the sp...
GRAHAM SWIFT

All novelists must form their personal pacts in some way with the slowness of their craft. There are...
GRAHAM SWIFT

Structure that really pays off is all based on emotion. I don't write down an elaborate plan. It...
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I share my name with an aerobatic bird that can whiz across a whole summer sky in seconds. A swift i...
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When I am writing, I'm very much on the ground, on the same ground my characters are treading.
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Possibly he knew, as he wrote this, that he was mad - because inside every madman sits a little sane...
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What we wish upon the future is very often the image of some lost, imagined past.
GRAHAM SWIFT

Children, only animals live entirely in the Here and Now. Only nature knows neither memory nor histo...
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Realism; fatalism; phlegm. To live in the Fens is to receive strong doses of reality. The great flat...
GRAHAM SWIFT

Age does not make us childish, as some say; it finds us true children.
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Your feelings so are important to write down, to capture, and to remember because today you're h...
TAYLOR SWIFT

When you are missing someone, time seems to move slower, and when I'm falling in love with someo...
TAYLOR SWIFT

In a relationship each person should support the other; they should lift each other up.
TAYLOR SWIFT

I'm intimidated by the fear of being average.
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In my opinion, the only way to conquer stage fright is to get up on stage and play. Every time you p...
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I know my flaws before other people point them out to me.
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I have this really high priority on happiness and finding something to be happy about.
TAYLOR SWIFT

People haven't always been there for me, but music always has.
TAYLOR SWIFT

I've always strived to be successful, not famous.
TAYLOR SWIFT

I love making new friends and I respect people for a lot of different reasons.
TAYLOR SWIFT

No matter what happens in life, be good to people. Being good to people is a wonderful legacy to lea...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I love the scents of winter! For me, it's all about the feeling you get when you smell pumpkin s...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I think Kenny Chesney or Garth Brooks would be the coolest duet partners. I look up to them so much ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Promises and Pye-Crusts, are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

O Grub Street! how do I bemoan thee, whose graceless children scorn to own thee! . Yet thou hast gre...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Style may defined as the proper words in the proper places.
JONATHAN SWIFT

It's true that I've never had a burning desire to rebel against my parents.
TAYLOR SWIFT

I'm a Sagittarius, and one of our major qualities is that we're blindly optimistic.
TAYLOR SWIFT

Fans are my favorite thing in the world. I've never been the type of artist who has that line dr...
TAYLOR SWIFT

When I was younger we had a grape arbor, and my mom would go out and pick grapes and make grape jam ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

We have just enough religion to make us hate but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Vision: the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

We are limited, not by our abilities, but by our vision.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Sitting on a bedroom floor crying is something that makes you feel really alone. If someone's si...
TAYLOR SWIFT

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a sco...
JONATHAN SWIFT

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be pu...
JONATHAN SWIFT

When I was a teenager, my biggest lessons came from Kenny Chesney, Tim McGraw, George Strait, Rascal...
TAYLOR SWIFT

If Heaven had looked upon riches to be a valuable thing, it would not have given them to such a scou...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Happiness is a perpetual possession of being well deceived.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I think the worst part about a breakup sometimes, if one could choose a worst part, would possibly b...
TAYLOR SWIFT

The latter part of a wise person's life is occupied with curing the follies, prejudices and false op...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Every one desires to live long, but no one would be old.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Your notions of friendship are new to me; I believe every man is born with his quantum, and he canno...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Two friendships in two breasts requires The same aversions and desires.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I never saw, heard, nor read, that the clergy were beloved in any nation where Christianity was the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

In the school of political projectors, I was but ill entertained, the professors appearing, in my ju...
JONATHAN SWIFT

The two maxims of any great man at court are, always to keep his countenance and never to keep his w...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I let people fill in the blanks on their own. If they want to think about their ex, that's fine....
TAYLOR SWIFT

I have been assured by a very knowing American of my acquaintance in London, that a young healthy ch...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The lack of belief is a defect that ought to be concealed when it cannot be overcome.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The most positive men are the most credulous.
JONATHAN SWIFT

May you live every day of your life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I've always been a hugger. If we all hugged more, the world would be a better place :)
TAYLOR SWIFT

People haven't always been there for me but music always has.
TAYLOR SWIFT

Just be yourself, there is no one better.
TAYLOR SWIFT

If somebody hurts you, it's okay to cry a river, just remember to build a bridge and get over it.
TAYLOR SWIFT

A footman may swear; but he cannot swear like a lord. He can swear as often: but can he swear with e...
JONATHAN SWIFT

I took a chance, I took a shot
And you may think I’m bullet-proof, but I’m not. You took a...
TAYLOR SWIFT

This is a new year. A new beginning. And things will change.
TAYLOR SWIFT

I suffer from girlnextdooritis where the guy is friends with you and that's it.
TAYLOR SWIFT

you're an expert at sorry and keeping the lines blurry
TAYLOR SWIFT

Vision is the art of seeing things invisible.
JONATHAN SWIFT

When I was a little girl I used to read fairy tales. In fairy tales you meet Prince Charming and he'...
TAYLOR SWIFT

This album is called "FEARLESS," and I guess I'd like to clarify why we chose that as the title. To ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I don't think you should wait. I think you should speak now.
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and you come away with a great little story of a mess of a dreamer with the nerve to adore you
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But no matter what love throws at you, you have to believe in it. You have ot believe in love storie...
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FEARLESS is getting back up and fighting for what you want over and over again....even though every ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Being FEARLESS isn't being 100% Not FEARFUL, it's being terrified but you jump anyway...
TAYLOR SWIFT

To me, “FEARLESS” is not the absence of fear. It’s not being completely unafraid. To me, FEARL...
TAYLOR SWIFT

To me, Fearless is not the absense of fear. It's not being completely unafraid. To me, Fearless is h...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Be that strong girl that everyone knew would make it through the worst, be that fearless girl, the o...
TAYLOR SWIFT

It's alright, just wait and see, your string of lights is still bright to me. Who you are is not whe...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Men are happy to be laughed at for their humor, but not for their folly.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Don't set your wit against a child.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts with ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

It is the folly of too many to mistake the echo of a London coffee-house for the voice of the kingdo...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Poor nations are hungry, and rich nations are proud; and pride and hunger will ever be at variance.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The stoical scheme of supplying our wants by lopping off our desires, is like cutting off our feet w...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Complaint is the largest tribute Heaven receives.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Rebukes are easy from our betters,
From men of quality and letters;
But when low dunces will ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

What some people invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT

All human race would be wits. And millions miss, for one that hits.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so great an example of bad manners as flattery. If you flatter all the company, you pleas...
JONATHAN SWIFT

In church your grandsire cut his throat; to do the job too long he tarried: he should have had my he...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Better belly burst than good liquor be lost.
JONATHAN SWIFT

We are so fond on one another because our ailments are the same.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Argument, as usually managed, is the worst sort of conversation, as in books it is generally the wor...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Censure is the tax a man pays to the public for being eminent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Coffee makes us severe, and grave, and philosophical.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One of the very best rules of conversation is to never, say anything which any of the company wish h...
JONATHAN SWIFT

And he gave it for his opinion, that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, to...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ambition often puts Men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positio...
JONATHAN SWIFT

The best doctors in the world are Doctor Diet, Doctor Quiet, and Doctor Merryman.
JONATHAN SWIFT

For the rest,
Whatever we have got has been by infinite labor, and search, and ranging through e...
JONATHAN SWIFT

What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I never knew a man come to greatness or eminence who lay abed late in the morning.
JONATHAN SWIFT

One enemy can do more hurt than ten friends can do good.
JONATHAN SWIFT

When a true genius appears in this world, you may know him by this sign, that the dunces are all in ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

'Tis an old maxim in the schools,
That flattery's the food of fools;
Yet now and then your men...
JONATHAN SWIFT

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on with a pitch folk.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I will venture to affirm, that the three seasons wherein our corn has miscarried did no more contrib...
JONATHAN SWIFT

It is a maxim among these lawyers, that whatever hath been done before, may legally be done again: a...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Come, agree, the law's costly.
JONATHAN SWIFT

There's none so blind as they that won't see.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Satire is a sort of glass wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own; wh...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Brutes find out where their talents lie;
A bear will not attempt to fly,
A foundered horse w...
JONATHAN SWIFT

But when a Man
JONATHAN SWIFT

Pretense is the overrating of any kind of knowledge we pretend to.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I said there was a society of men among us, bred up from their youth in the art of proving by words ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Invention is the talent of youth, as judgment is of age.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Interest is the spur of the people, but glory that of great souls. Invention is the talent of youth,...
JONATHAN SWIFT

I wont quarrel with my bread and butter.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I wonder what fool it was that first invented kissing.
JONATHAN SWIFT

It was a bold person that first ate an oyster.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Promises and pie crusts are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

But you think that it is time for me to have done with the world, and so I would if I could get into...
JONATHAN SWIFT

She wears her clothes as if they were thrown on her with a pitchfork.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same positi...
JONATHAN SWIFT

And he gave it for his opinion, "that whoever could make two ears of corn, or two blades of grass, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

I warrant you lay abed till the cows came home.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Faith, that's as well said as if I had said it myself.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Reason is a very light rider, and easily shook off.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nor do they trust their tongue alone, but speak a language of their own; can read a nod, a shrug, a ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

I never wonder to see men wicked, but I often wonder to see them not ashamed.
JONATHAN SWIFT

As blushing will sometimes make a whore pass for a virtuous woman, so modesty may make a fool seem a...
JONATHAN SWIFT

How we apples swim.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Instead of dirt and poison, we have rather chosen to fill our hives with honey and wax, thus furnis...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Convey a libel in a frown. And wink a reputation down!
JONATHAN SWIFT

For in reason, all government without the consent of the governed is the very definition of slavery.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The worthiest people are the most injured by slander, as is the best fruit which the birds have been...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Modesty may make a fool seem a man of sense.
JONATHAN SWIFT

They say fingers were made before forks, and hands before knives.
JONATHAN SWIFT

What some invent the rest enlarge.
JONATHAN SWIFT

I heard the little bird say so.
JONATHAN SWIFT

A prince, the moment he is crown'd, Inherits every virtue sound, As emblems of the sovereign p...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Discovery consists of seeing what everybody has seen and thinking what nobody else has thought.
JONATHAN SWIFT

So, naturalists observe, a flea Has smaller fleas that on him prey; And these have smaller sti...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A nice man is a man of nasty ideas.
JONATHAN SWIFT

In all distresses of our friends We first consult our private ends; While Nature, kindly bent ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

A man suffers death himself as often as he loses those dear to him.
JONATHAN SWIFT

He had been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be p...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Positiveness is a good quality for preachers and speakers because, whoever shares his thoughts wit...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Necessity is the mother of invention.
JONATHAN SWIFT

It is a maxim, that those to whom everybody allows the second place have an undoubted title to the ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

That the universe was formed by a fortuitous concourse of atoms, I will no more believe than that th...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their own.
JONATHAN SWIFT

It is as hard to satirize well a man of distinguished vices, as to praise well a man of distinguishe...
JONATHAN SWIFT

We have just enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Never sleeping, still awake, Pleasing most when most I speak; The delight of old and young, ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Bread is the staff of life.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies but which let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

The proper words in the proper places are the true definition of style.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Although men are accused of not knowing their own weakness, yet perhaps few know their own strength....
JONATHAN SWIFT

Faith! he must make his stories shorter or change his comrades once a quarter.
JONATHAN SWIFT

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by the sign that the dunces are all in con...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Nothing is so hard for those who abound in riches to conceive how others can be in want.
JONATHAN SWIFT

When a true genius appears in this world you may know him by this sign, that the dines are all in co...
JONATHAN SWIFT

Ambition often puts men upon doing the meanest offices; so climbing is performed in the same posture...
JONATHAN SWIFT

There is a time for silence. There is a time for waiting you turn. But if you know how you feel and ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I heard that when Christina Aguilera went back to her prom, people, like, booed her. I can't ima...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I think about food literally all day every day. It's a thing.
TAYLOR SWIFT

A letdown is worth a few songs. A heartbreak is worth a few albums.
TAYLOR SWIFT

Power is no blessing in itself, except when it is used to protect the innocent.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Laws are like cobwebs, which may catch small flies, but let wasps and hornets break through.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Silence speaks so much louder than screaming tantrums. Never give anyone an excuse to say that you&#...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Red is such an interesting color to correlate with emotion, because it's on both ends of the spe...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Relationships are like traffic lights. And I just have this theory that I can only exist in a relati...
TAYLOR SWIFT

You have people come into your life shockingly and surprisingly. You have losses that you never thou...
TAYLOR SWIFT

It's so much easier to like people, and to let people in, to trust them until they prove that yo...
TAYLOR SWIFT

Vision is the art of seeing what is invisible to others.
JONATHAN SWIFT

As love without esteem is capricious and volatile; esteem without love is languid and cold.
JONATHAN SWIFT

No man was ever so completely skilled in the conduct of life, as not to receive new information from...
JONATHAN SWIFT

There is nothing constant in this world but inconsistency.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Good manners is the art of making those people easy with whom we converse. Whoever makes the fewest ...
JONATHAN SWIFT

There were many times my pants were so thin I could sit on a dime and tell if it was heads or tails.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Books, the children of the brain.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Promises and pie-crust are made to be broken.
JONATHAN SWIFT

We have enough religion to make us hate, but not enough to make us love one another.
JONATHAN SWIFT

Satire is a sort of glass, wherein beholders do generally discover everybody's face but their ow...
JONATHAN SWIFT

One element of Madonna's career that really takes center stage is how many times she's reinv...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I've always felt music is the only way to give an instantaneous moment the feel of slow motion. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

People like music when they're in love, but they don't need it as much. You need music when ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

My mom and I have always been really close. She's always been the friend that was always there. ...
TAYLOR SWIFT

I think the tiniest little thing can change the course of your day, which can change the course of y...
TAYLOR SWIFT

When you hear people making hateful comments, stand up to them. Point out what a waste it is to hate...
TAYLOR SWIFT

All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

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All nature's creatures join to express nature's purpose. Somewhere in their mounting and mating, rutting and butting is the very secret of nature itself.

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