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> [“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad happened there, we were constantly being informed, the 'radioactive debris', whatever this might be, was liable to rain…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/joseph-o-neill/there-was-apparently-a-nuclear-reactor-at-a-place-called-indian-point/)

[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/)

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