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You Quotes by Colm Toibin
- All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.
- Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to be ready for someone to…
- I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions of things.
- Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
- I first went to Barcelona in 1975 after university, and I stayed for three years. I learnt Catalan because that's what everyone speaks in the…
- I said that when I looked at photographs of the firefighters who went into the Twin Towers, their faces looked to me like Irish faces.…
- The problem is once you've written the opening paragraph and worked out how the rest of the story will go in your head, there's nothing…
- When a book comes from the publisher and you see it for the first time... Of course it's not remotely like seeing a baby for…
- You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world…
- Solitude is good in the evening. Dublin is a quiet city when you get to a certain age, when your friends settle down and have…
- When I was 19, I thought I wanted to be an English civil servant. It was the most exotic thing at the time - can…
More You Quotes
- Dedicate yourself to the good you deserve and desire for yourself. Give yourself peace of mind. You deserve to be happy. You… — Hannah Arendt
- These are the fifties, you know. The disgusting, posturing fifties. — Hannah Arendt
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- Flattery and deceit are the darlings of great men, and so with these men spread the butter on thick, if you want… — Pietro Aretino
- Having been a child actor, I remember how directors would trick me to get good performances out of me. I don't think… — Asia Argento
- In Italy the censor is very old and there are many judges and psychiatrists who analyse you. — Dario Argento
- I do think the heart can balance out the mind, if your heart is in a good place it can give you… — Alexis Arguello
- I believe more in precision, when you have the capability, like when you see a mosquito fly and you're able to hit… — Alexis Arguello
- I'd take precision any day over power; as far as being tactical you know you have to see what's going on in… — Alexis Arguello
- Haiti, Haiti, the further I am from you, the less I breathe. Haiti, I love you, and I will love you always.… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- When you care about human beings, you do your best to not repress and to not let people to repress and to… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide