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Rather Quotes by Colm Toibin
- I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen.
- 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…
- 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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- The true delight is in the finding out rather than in the knowing. — Isaac Asimov