Melvyn Bragg Quotes

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

  Melvyn Bragg

  Dust, Patterns, Neat

  Melvyn Bragg (2013). “The Adventure of English: The Biography of a Language”, p.51, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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

  Melvyn Bragg

  British, Blokes

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• Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Love, Writing, Alternatives

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

  Melvyn Bragg

  Writing, Different

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• 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.

  Melvyn Bragg

  Leaving, Unhappy, Mental Illness

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

  Melvyn Bragg

  Joy, Males, Choir

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

  Melvyn Bragg

  Art, People, Car

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