John McGahern Quotes
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
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After marriage, most women keep aside their aspirations and dreams as their priorities change.
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Every religion there's something foul going on.
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An author ought to write for the youth of his own generation, the critics of the next, and the schoolmaster of ever afterwards.
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I don't see the point in working just to be working.
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My coach told me if I broke the national record for the 200, I could run a 100.
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I never thought of stopping, and I just hated sleeping. I can't imagine having a better life.
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To be a good model, you have to be very smart.
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The heart of the theater is the play itself, how it dramatizes life to make it meaningful entertainment. To achieve depth and universality, the playwright must subject himself to intense critique, to know human character and behavior, and finally to construct art from the most mundane of human experience.
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Everyone thinks the fashion business is so glamorous. It's completely the opposite.
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My books deliberately provide no answers or messages. I'm drilled in the habit of objectivity and also aware that the steady drip of fiction has more power than facts to shape opinion, so I handle it with caution.
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One grand fallacy of the women's movement: Expecting work to mean 'power' and 'self-fulfillment.'
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I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry and music in our technology, a beauty as touching as that of eagle, moss campion, raven or yonder limestone boulder shining under the Arctic sun.
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Let them do what I have done.
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The emancipation of the scholars and scientists from philosophy is according to Nietzsche only a part of the democratic movement, i.e. of the emancipation of the low from subordination to the high. … The plebeian character of the contemporary scholar or scientist is due to the fact that he has no reverence for himself.
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I think Wallace Hall is an imbecile.
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You can hardly be a classicist and not be interested in theatre.
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I don't have any weird gimmicks. I do put on lipstick for the show. That's what separates it. 'Cause I don't wear makeup at all... That's probably the closest thing I have to a routine.
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As an artist, you have an opportunity to get in and move things around in people.
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I prefer stories about people who are, in a sense, trying to find better versions of themselves.
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... Amongst all the mechanical poison that this terrible nineteenth century has poured upon men, it has given us at any rate one antidote - the Daguerreotype. (1845)
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Hour after hour, they shouted at me, accused me, insulted me and members of my family.
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Nowadays I'm more interested in what you'd call 'alternative.' Lately we've been listening to a lot of Mumford & Sons, and Jenny Owen Youngs. I'm also pretty crazy about the Kings of Convenience, a Norwegian band that's been compared to Simon and Garfunkel.
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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
