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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…
• 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…
• Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary…
• The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible…
• 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…
• My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window…
• As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
• When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that…
• I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice…
• ...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought…
• Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

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