Melvyn Bragg Quotes

#1. History is too often the refuge of the tidy-minded, making neat patterns when the dust has settled.

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#2. More people now work in the arts than the steel, coal and car industries combined.

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#3. When anybody tells you something about writing, somebody will tell you something completely different and they will also be right

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#4. There's nothing the British like better than a bloke who comes from nowhere, makes it, and then gets clobbered.

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#5. To hear the Treorchy Male Choir in full throat is one of the great joys of choral music.

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#6. Shakespeare shoved into bed together words that scarcely knew each other before, had never even been introduced.

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#7. The Internet took off in English and although there are now fifteen hundred languages on the Internet, seventy percent of it is still in English.

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#8. Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

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#9. Occasionally now I feel a wang that goes in my head - once you've got it you've got it. The [illness] was quite severe, leaving me deeply unhappy and frightened.

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