Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book. — Joseph O'Neill Book Copy Share Image
Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love? — Joseph O'Neill Courage Copy Share Image
“he now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.” — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me… — Joseph O'Neill Holiday Copy Share Image
“...even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to… — Joseph O'Neill Depression Copy Share Image
“I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him. Then I turn to look for what it… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.” — Joseph O'Neill Chaos Copy Share Image
Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway. — Joseph O'Neill Books Copy Share Image
It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves. — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“people in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're… — Joseph O'Neill Authorized Copy Share Image
Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky… — Joseph O'Neill Magritte Copy Share Image
I went to an international school in Holland, and I didn't have any memories of growing up in the United States or… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
Perhaps the relevant truth is that we all find ourselves in temporal currents and that unless you're paying attention you'll discover, often… — Joseph O'Neill Attention Copy Share Image
“The yellow commuter train ran through canal-crossed fields as dull as graph paper. Always one saw evidence of the tiny brick houses… — Joseph O'Neill Angst Copy Share Image
“Each of her soothing utterances battered me more grievously than the last—as if I were traveling in a perverse ambulance whose function… — Joseph O'Neill Heart Copy Share Image
I think you sense the metaphorical resonance of what you're writing without analysing it too carefully. That leads you down dead ends.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
We are in the realm not of logic but of wistfulness, and I must maintain that wistfulness is a respectable, serious condition.… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I am vertiginously reminded that the human race refreshes itself in absolute ignorance and that without an enormous, never-ending labor of pedagogy,… — Joseph O'Neill Education reform Copy Share Image
“Despair busies one, and my weekend was spoken for. I was going to lie down on the floor of my apartment in… — Joseph O'Neill Air conditioner Copy Share Image
“A self-evident and prefabricated symbolism attaches itself to this slow climb to the zenith, and we are not so foolishly ironic, or… — Joseph O'Neill American dream Copy Share Image
“Perhaps the relevant truth- and it's one whose existence was apparent to my wife, and I'm sure to much of the world,… — Joseph O'Neill Anxiety Copy Share Image
“...only a lunatic would fail to distinguish between himself and his representative self. This banal distinction may be most obvious in the… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“As I repeatedly went forth with him and began to understand the ignorance and contradictions and language difficulties with which he contended,… — Joseph O'Neill History Copy Share Image
“For those under the age of 45 it seemed that world events had finally contrived a meaningful test of their capacity for… — Joseph O'Neill Intellectual Copy Share Image
When I read James Joyce, I'm not really interested in the Dublin of 1904. I'm interested in being in the presence of… — Joseph O'Neill Authenticity Copy Share Image
I felt shame - I see this clearly, now - at the instinctive recognition in myself of an awful enfeebling fatalism, a… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“The rocking of the boat by the waves was soothing but unknown. The men on the shore were asleep. Not the twelve-year-old,… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“There was, apparently, a nuclear reactor at a place called Indian Point, just thirty miles away in Westchester County. If something bad… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“But surely everyone can also testify to another, less reckonable kind of homesickness, one having to do with unsettlements that cannot be… — Joseph O'Neill History Copy Share Image
“I was sitting on the floor, my shoes stupidly pointing at the ceiling. The yelping of emergency vehicles welled up from the… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“She merely wiped the floor with paper towels and said nothing, brushing her free hand against my shoulder blade—my shoulder blade!—as she… — Joseph O'Neill Hate Copy Share Image
“It also had extraordinary acoustics: in the hush of the small hours, a goods truck smashing into a pothole sounded like an… — Joseph O'Neill Copy Share Image
“I'm tempted to point out that our dealings, however unusual and close, were the dealings of businessmen. My ease with this state… — Joseph O'Neill Businessmen Copy Share Image
“About Danielle, I remember, my feelings were no more specific than pleasant anxiousness. She hadn’t caught me, obviously enough, at a very… — Joseph O'Neill Good and bad Copy Share Image
I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer. — Joseph O'Neill Books Copy Share Image
