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• We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.
• The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it,…
• I'm just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.
• What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.
• I think empathy is a guy who punches you in the face at a bus station, and you’re somehow able to look…
• A good writer wants from us — or has no right to ask more than — intelligence, good faith and time.
• One of the best things I’ve read about that inexplicably, but endlessly, fascinating group of people, the so-called Serious Collectors of 78s.…
• Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.
• The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island,…
• I want to stay in touch with what I have in common with my subjects, with the places where are equally implicated…
• The initial research will be very indiscriminate. I do a lot of reading, buy a stack of books and read and digest…
• Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.

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