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