"I haven't really written my plays and books……" — Sebastian Barry
"I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood."
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24 Quotes by Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry has 24 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:
- The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it…
- A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner…
- The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets.…
- He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush,…
- Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced…
- It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that…
- I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must…
- There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
- After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously…
- For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets…
- That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
- It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero…
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