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• When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to…
• Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary…
• Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes…
• Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it…
• I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
• The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I…
• I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the…
• When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we…

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