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Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea

Book by Julie Burchill · 5 quotes · Brighton, Moved, Towns

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Made in Brighton: From the Grand to the Gutter: Modern Britain as Seen from Beside the Sea Quotes

“As a precocious teen I dreamed of being Graham Greene. Well, as it turned out, I never wrote a great novel, sadly, and I never converted to Catholicism, happily, but I did do one thing he did. That is, in middle age I moved to a seaside town and got into a right barney with the local powers-that-be.”

“The money I pay for my cultural experiences came willingly from my own pocket - they were not the result of bread being removed from the mouths of the poor so that Miss Thing here could mince off to the circus smelling of roses.”

“When I moved to Brighton from London in 1995, I was struck by what I thought of as its townliness. A town, it seemed to me, was that perfect place to live, neither city nor country, both of which like to think they are light years apart but actually have a great deal in common.”