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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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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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 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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You cannot prepare enough for anything.
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I have always loved Scott Foley.
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My goal was never to make Facebook cool. I am not a cool person.
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One has personally to come under the shadow of war to feel fully its oppression; but as the years go by it seems now often forgotten that to be caught in youth by 1914 was no less hideous an experience than to be involved in 1939 and the following years. By 1918 all but one of my close friends were dead.
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It is impossible that the intention of the entrepreneur who has borrowed in order to increase investment can become effective except in substitution for investment by other entrepreneurs which would have occurred otherwise at a faster rate than the public decide to increase their savings...
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It just sort of happened. I wrote like what I'd always read and what was in the movies … I'm sure popular music is supposed to be like this.
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I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
