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"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
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"Life is defined by time and seasons."
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"If you want to know the value of a minute ask the person who came to the train station or airport a minute late."
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"Don't equate effective living to being busy."
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"They say "time is money". But I want to say "time makes money". This means time is greater than money."
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"But thoughts the slave of life, and life, Time's fool,And Time, that takes survey of all the world,Must have a stop."
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"All things are made beautiful at a timely hour."
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"When did the future switch from being a promise to being a threat?"
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"Much rain wears the marble."
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"Don't depend on the thoughts, "I need more time". There are only 24 hours in each day. You can't make it 25 or 26. You just have to plan your activities very well so as to achieve the expected things with the natural time limit."
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"Four days will quickly steep themselves in nightsFour nights will quickly dream away the time."
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"The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book."
Church
"Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church."
Gratitude
"I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television."
Advice
"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."
Reflection
"I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story."
Time
"I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other."
Reading
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
Time
"The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese."
Being
"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners."
People
"I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world."
Difference
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