Colm Toibin Quotes

'One Minus One' and 'Barcelona, 1975' are more or less autobiographical.

Colm Toibin

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We used the Western style to express our own themes and stories. But don't forget that our heritage includes The Thousand and One Nights.

Naguib Mahfouz
- Style
- Forget
- Heritage
When I left university I was working for a documentary film company for six or seven years to the great relief of my father whose greatest waking fear was that I would become an actor.

Sam Neill
- Great
- Father
- Fear
I grew up poor in India, and there were days when we struggled to find food and other basic necessities. Our mother worked odds and ends jobs to keep the family together and educate us.

Naveen Jain
- Up
- Family
- Together
He who knows that enough is enough will always have enough.

Lao Tzu
- Always
- Enough
- Will
Though social eugenics was discredited long ago, we still often think of the genome in quasi-eugenic terms. When we read about the latest discovery of a link between a gene and a disease, we imagine that we've learned the cause of the disease, and we may even think we'll get a cure by fixing the gene.

Gary Wolf
- Long
- May
- Think
Corona Light has had very faithful stewardship from us from the very beginning in 1989.

Carlos Alvarez
- Light
- Beginning
- Faithful