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- It really matters to writers to find and treasure readers, all the more when they're on the other side of the world.
- 'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.
- I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the…
- I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War…
- I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much…
- The Roman Catholic Church and its rituals were so much part of life that, although my parents would often question a small matter of dogma…
- While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in…
- I like it that they [disciples] feed me and pay for my clothes and protect me. And in return I will do for them what…
- In Ireland, novels and plays still have a strange force. The writing of fiction and the creation of theatrical images can affect life there more…
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- The more dubious and uncertain an instrument violence has become in international relations, the more it has gained in reputation and appeal… — Hannah Arendt
- No punishment has ever possessed enough power of deterrence to prevent the commission of crimes. On the contrary, whatever the punishment, once… — Hannah Arendt
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- As a kid, 'Star Wars' was much more my thing than 'Star Trek' was. — J. J. Abrams
- I believe in anything that will engage the audience and make the story more effective. — J. J. Abrams
- Those who educate children well are more to be honored than they who produce them; for these only gave them life, those… — Aristotle
- All human actions have one or more of these seven causes: chance, nature, compulsions, habit, reason, passion, desire. — Aristotle
- Mothers are fonder than fathers of their children because they are more certain they are their own. — Aristotle
- In a democracy the poor will have more power than the rich, because there are more of them, and the will of… — Aristotle
- Poetry is finer and more philosophical than history; for poetry expresses the universal, and history only the particular. — Aristotle
- The whole is more than the sum of its parts. — Aristotle