"My father was very outwardly religious." — John McGahern

"My father was very outwardly religious."

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…
When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance…
Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without…
The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change…
Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when…
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and…
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor,…
As a writer, I write to see. If I knew how it would end, I wouldn't write. It's a process…
When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that…
I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction…
...with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him,…
Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

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