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Very Quotes by Colm Toibin
- Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he…
- Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.
- I did think of becoming a priest quite late on, when other boys were thinking of knocking over fences and going out with girls. I…
- 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…
- ..Some of our loves and attachments are elemental and beyond our choosing, and for that very reason they come spiced with pain and regret and…
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- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- It is in the very nature of things human that every act that has once made its appearance and has been recorded… — Hannah Arendt
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- Actually I am very glad that people can buy Armani - even if it's a fake. I like the fact that I'm… — Giorgio Armani
- The most deeply personal of my works are the non-fiction works, the autobiographical works, because there, I'm talking about myself very directly. — Paul Auster
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- I guess I wanted to leave America for awhile. It wasn't that I wanted to become an expatriate, or just never come… — Paul Auster
- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong