"Anything that is given can be at once……" — John McGahern
"Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan."
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34 Quotes by John McGahern
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When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private…
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When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance…
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Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without…
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The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change…
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Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and…
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My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor,…
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As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process…
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When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that…
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I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction…
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...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him,…
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Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood
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I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and…
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This is the precept by which I have lived: Prepare for the worst; expect the best; and take what comes.
— Hannah Arendt
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I don't believe in personal immortality; the only way I expect to have some version of such a thing is…
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We always expect tremendous criticism. It is my role to be the lightning rod ... to attract the attacks against…
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Oh, the most important thing about myself is that my life has been full of changes. Therefore, when I observe…
— Chinua Achebe
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In order to win, you must expect to win.
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When you are running for the presidency of the United States, you have to expect that you are going to…
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He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator.
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If you expect the blessings of God, be kind to His people.
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You can't expect someone born into a family with no music... to understand when I'm conducting the Schoenberg Variations.
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I want people to be blown away when I do what they don't expect.
— Drew Barrymore
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To think straight, it is advisable to expect all qualities and attributes, adjectives, and so on to refer to at…
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