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Your Quotes by Colm Toibin
- 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…
- It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
- 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…
- 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…
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- If you want to annoy your neighbors, tell the truth about them. — Pietro Aretino
- 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'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
- 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
- Your lost friends are not dead, but gone before, advanced a stage or two upon that road which you must travel in… — Aristophanes
- Bring your desires down to your present means. Increase them only when your increased means permit. — Aristotle
- I think in the case of horror, it's a chance to confront a lot of your worse fears and those fears usually… — Adam Arkin
- To create something exceptional, your mindset must be relentlessly focused on the smallest detail. — Giorgio Armani
- It's our hearts and brains that we should exercise more often. You can put on all the makeup you want, but it… — Kevyn Aucoin
- You can't put your feet on the ground until you've touched the sky. — Paul Auster
- Ask yourself the secret of your success. Listen to your answer, and practice it. — Richard Bach
- It is by not always thinking of yourself, if you can manage it, that you might somehow be happy. Until you make… — Richard Bach