Quotes by Amanda Craig

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Novelist, critic and journalist · British

British novelist, critic and journalist

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marriage work london love depression relationships holiday ambition city romance emotion shame britain sadness culture school plays shakespeare biology war babies effort ita-y relax reward tuscany umbria vacation benefits class

“Polly was all too aware that much of her time on holiday would be spent doing the laundry and the cooking and the child-care and all the other chores that back in London would be shared with her cl...”
— Amanda Craig
childcare cleaning domestic drudgery

“Hatred bears all things, believes all things, hopes all things, endures all things.”
— Amanda Craig
grudge hatred revenge vengeance

“I knew exactly when the fever had struck. I had been reading Hamlet in an English class at school. Everyone else stumbled, puzzling over the strange words. Then it had been my turn, and the languag...”
— Amanda Craig
acting actor actress bard

“It’s the remarkable thing about academics: they look at Shakespeare and always see their own faces in him.”
— Amanda Craig
academia academics identification midsummer-night-s-dream

“But this city is a world of its own, a country within a country. People are used to taking the old and making it news; and used, too, to taking the new and making it old. Every glass of water from ...”
— Amanda Craig
britain capital city dirty