"I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing……" — Colm Toibin
"I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels."
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49 Quotes by Colm Toibin
Colm Toibin has 49 quotes on this site.
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I do not know why it matters that I should tell the truth to myself at night, why it should…
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I write with a sort of grim determination to deal with things that are hidden and difficult, and this means,…
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All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so…
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Anyone who works in the arts knows, if you're writing a novel or a play or anything, you have to…
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Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved…
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I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.
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I live in words. I like looking at things, but I don't have a strong visual imagination.
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I suppose one should have an integrated personality, but I've never really seen the point.
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I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens…
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I think you can get a sort of intensity and an edginess offering nine stories in a book. Competing versions…
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I wrote every day between the ages of 12 and 20 when I stopped because I went to Barcelona, where…
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It is important to find a publisher and equally important not to be noticed until your third or fourth book.
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The Constitution supposes what the history of all governments demonstrates, that the executive is the branch of power most interested…
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— Wes Nisker
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It would be bypassing the issue to say that the artist's business is to work with this and that material…
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History is rich with adventurous men, long on charisma, with a highly developed instinct for their own interests, who have…
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Symbolism and meaning are two separate things. I think she found the right words by bypassing procedures like meaning and…
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Jenks enthusiastically leaned against the counter and opened the box. Bypassing the plastic knife, he broke off about a third…
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We don’t constrain our mental powers when we store new long-term memories. We strengthen them. With each expansion of our…
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If I had a formula for bypassing trouble, I wouldn't pass it around. Wouldn't be doing anybody a favor. Trouble…
— Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr.
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All who affirm the use of violence admit it is only a means to achieve justice and peace. But peace…
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