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John McGahern has 34 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
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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…
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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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Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary…
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The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible…
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Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes…
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it…
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My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window…
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As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process of discovery.
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When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that…
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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice…
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...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought…
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Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood
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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice…
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Before the first year, nobody gave it a chance. Now, 36 years later, everybody knows Monday Night Football.
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There may be a new album, and there may not. Right now, we're encouraging bootlegging because there have been some great live…
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When I started out, nobody gave me scripts, so I had to write.
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Arsenal have won that advantage, nobody gave it to them. By playing fantastic football and by winning matches and by winning trophies,…
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Nobody gave me what I wanted for my birthday! Nobody! What sort of presents do you call these? New shoes, a green…
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I was involved with the landmines before the Princess of Wales, and nobody gave a damn about people losing their limbs. It…
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When we got married, nobody gave it more than two weeks. There were bets all over the country, with astronomical odds against…
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I've cut myself and nobody gave a fuck, Scarred wrists, scarred arms, I'm out of luck, Sleeves rolled, see my scars, I…
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Ain't nobody gave us nothing I just got my own!
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