"Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed……" — John McGahern
"Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood"
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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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Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when…
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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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I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and…
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The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela,…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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The soul, which is spirit, can not dwell in dust; it is carried along to dwell in the blood.
— Saint Augustine
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The bond that links your true family is not one of blood, but of respect and joy in each other's…
— Richard Bach
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Political liberty, the peace of a nation, and science itself are gifts for which Fate demands a heavy tax in…
— Honore de Balzac
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The patriot blood of my father was warm in my veins.
— Clara Barton
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The Eucharistic sacrifice of the body and blood of Christ embraces in turn the mystery of our Lord's continuing passion…
— Pope Benedict XVI
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In morals, theosophy builds its teachings on the unity, seeing in each form the expression of a common life, and…
— Annie Besant
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The great questions of the day will not be settled by means of speeches and majority decisions but by iron…
— Otto von Bismarck
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Here at home, when Americans were standing in long lines to give blood after the attack on the World Trade…
— Joe Biden
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But the love of adventure was in father's blood.
— Buffalo Bill
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I'm a fountain of blood. In the shape of a girl.
— Bjork
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Everybody's always asking me about my blood pressure. They did an interview once where they hooked me up to a…
— Lewis Black
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