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> [I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that the great outcomes were but randomly connected to our endeavors, that life was beyond mending, that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/i-felt-shame-i-see-this-clearly-now-at-the-instinctive-recognition-in/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

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## More by Joseph O'Neill

> [I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a sense that…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/i-felt-shame-i-see-this-clearly-now-at-the-instinctive-recognition-in/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/even-my-work-the-largest-of-the-pots-and-pans-i-d-placed-under-my/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends. You stop…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/i-think-you-sense-the-metaphorical-resonance-of-what-you-re-writing/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/it-takes-a-long-long-time-to-write-what-i-do-write/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/i-have-been-to-turkey-almost-every-summer-holiday-of-my-life-and/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him. Then I turn to look for what it is we're…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/i-see-i-tell-him-looking-from-him-to-rachel-and-again-to-him-then-i/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“Like an old door, ever man past a certain age comes with historical warps and creaks of one kind or another, and a woman…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/like-an-old-door-ever-man-past-a-certain-age-comes-with-historical/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“She merely wiped the floor with paper towels and said nothing, brushing her free hand against my shoulder blade—my shoulder blade!—as she carried the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/she-merely-wiped-the-floor-with-paper-towels-and-said-nothing/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy, everything would…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/i-am-vertiginously-reminded-that-the-human-race-refreshes-itself-in/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [You want a novel to tap as directly as possible into your most unspeakable preoccupations. And in America, in particular, cricket is pretty unspeakable.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/you-want-a-novel-to-tap-as-directly-as-possible-into-your-most/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or confident, as…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/a-self-evident-and-prefabricated-symbolism-attaches-itself-to-this/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“...bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/bright-shirted-racers-of-the-tour-de-france-zoomed-by-like/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/novel-writing-is-a-bit-like-deception-you-lie-as-little-as-you/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for conscientious political…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/for-those-under-the-age-of-45-it-seemed-that-world-events-had-finally/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

> [“Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world, long before…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/perhaps-the-relevant-truth-and-it-s-one-whose-existence-was-apparent/)

[Joseph O'Neill](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/joseph-o-neill/)

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