Facts Quote by John McGahern

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“I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.”

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“…But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.”

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The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

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But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.

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Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church.

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I'd much prefer to write more quickly.

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What is history after all? History is facts which become lies in the end.

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Don't take too much comfort in the fact that you're successful today because tomorrow could bring failure. There's no surety in life.

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