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

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.

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

Melvyn Bragg
British, Blokes

Writing novels is a way of living alternative lives.

Melvyn Bragg
Love, Writing, Alternatives

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

Melvyn Bragg
Writing, Different

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

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

Melvyn Bragg
Joy, Males, Choir

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

Melvyn Bragg
Art, People, Car

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