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Much Quotes by Colm Toibin
- All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
- 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'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…
- 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…
- Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have…
- The sentences I write have their roots in song and poetry, and take their bearings from music and painting, as much as from the need…
- History is a way of interpreting, rather than, say, knowing, the past. It is usually a set of disputes between those who have access to…
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