Niall Williams Quotes
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Human beings are not seamless smooth creations, they have insoluble parts, and the closer you look the more mysterious they become.
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We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.
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People are odd creations, this is my theme.
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When you’re different you’ve got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.
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It's a blindness thing, faith.
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There's a book inside you. There's a library inside me.
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Men are private. This I have learned. They are whole continents of privacy; you can only go to the borders; you can look in but you cannot enter.
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We are our stories. We tell them to stay alive or keep alive those who only live now in the telling.