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> [Going to any place that you view as more politically oppressed than your own country, there's a weird tendency to assume that the whole existence is determined minute by minute by the political reality, but of course, that's not the…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/going-to-any-place-that-you-view-as-more-politically-oppressed-than/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

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## More by John Jeremiah Sullivan

> [Ireland starts for me with the end of 'The Dead,' which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/ireland-starts-for-me-with-the-end-of-the-dead-which-my-father-read/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [“If we put aside the self-awareness standard -- and really, how arbitrary and arrogant is that, to take the attribute of consciousness we happen to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/if-we-put-aside-the-self-awareness-standard-and-really-how-arbitrary/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/i-m-just-saying-take-courage-that-and-pretty-much-that-alone-is-never/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/what-s-old-doesn-t-need-to-be-old-fashioned-it-gets-reborn/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/the-city-of-cork-the-urban-center-where-all-the-shops-and-bars-and/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/the-justification-for-rap-rock-seems-to-be-that-if-you-take-really/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/a-good-writer-wants-from-us-or-has-no-right-to-ask-more-than/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [It is a curious fact that the word 'essayist' showed up in English before it existed in French.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/it-is-a-curious-fact-that-the-word-essayist-showed-up-in-english/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest them, and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/the-initial-research-will-be-very-indiscriminate-i-do-a-lot-of/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s. Petrusich burrows…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/one-of-the-best-things-i-ve-read-about-that-inexplicably-but/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [The greenness of Ireland is a false greenness, after all. Not that it isn't green - the place can still make you have to…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/the-greenness-of-ireland-is-a-false-greenness-after-all-not-that-it/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It's not, as the adage has it, because they were never…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/this-is-why-you-can-never-reason-true-christians-out-of-the-faith-it/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [Thinking you're a genius is death.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/thinking-you-re-a-genius-is-death/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/not-watching-tv-gets-me-in-a-lot-of-trouble-in-my-household-because/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

> [There's a half-conscious state you enter when you're actually generating prose, and you are simply a better writer in that place. In fact it's…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-jeremiah-sullivan/there-s-a-half-conscious-state-you-enter-when-you-re-actually/)

[John Jeremiah Sullivan](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/john-jeremiah-sullivan/)

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