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Wrote Quotes by Colm Toibin
- I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where life was too exciting to…
- 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…
- I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I…
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