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Beryl Bainbridge

Geburtstag: 21. November 1932
Todesdatum: 2. Juli 2010

Dame Beryl Margaret Bainbridge, DBE war eine britische Schriftstellerin und Schauspielerin. Weite Bekanntheit erlangte sie durch ihre historischen Romane.

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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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— Beryl Bainbridge

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

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— Beryl Bainbridge
The New York Times, March 1, 1981. http://partners.nytimes.com/books/98/11/29/specials/bainbridge-tenth.html

„What we remember is probably fiction anyway.“

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— Beryl Bainbridge

„Being constantly with the children was like wearing a pair of shoes that were expensive and too small. She couldn't bear to throw them out, but they gave her blisters.“

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— Beryl Bainbridge
Injury Time (London: Abacus, [1977] 2003) ch. 4, pp. 41-42.

„I am of the firm belief that everybody could write books and I never understand why they don't. After all, everyone 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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— Beryl Bainbridge
James Vinson & D. L. Kirkpatrick (eds.), Contemporary Novelists, 2nd edition, (London: St. James Press, 1976). http://biography.jrank.org/pages/4121/Bainbridge-Beryl-Margaret-Beryl-Bainbridge-comments.html