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"I will make a bargain with the Republicans. If they will stop telling lies about Democrats, we will stop telling the truth about them."
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"A distorted perspective of mankind is a terrible independence."
"I have a theory that the truth is never told during the nine-to-five hours."
"When you live by understanding, you will not live in deception."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
"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."
"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."
"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970."
"I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story."
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