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"The fact differentiates the fake."
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Personal Development
"Nothing will shake a man-or at any rate a man like me-out of his merely verbal thinking and his merely notional beliefs. He has to be knocked silly before he comes to his senses. Only torture will bring out the truth. Only under torture does he discover it himself."
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Personal Development
"To attempt seeing Truth without knowing Falsehood. It is the attempt to see the Light without knowing the Darkness. It cannot be."
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Personal Development
"There are certain truths that occurs to us, which we cannot convey in words, but requires a personal experience to grasp more vividly."
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Personal Development
"My truth could be very different than your truth."
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Personal Development
"Truth is not for sale. The man who sells truths that could help and guide humanity will never have peace of mind. Share truths freely, and you will always be revealed more."
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Personal Development
"It isn't so astonishing the number of things that I can remember as the number of things I can remember that aren't so."
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Personal Development
"I don't know much about the world, but I do know one thing for sure. If I'm pessimistic, then the adults in this world who are not pessimistic are a bunch of idiots."
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Personal Development
"Lying to ourselves is more deeply ingrained than lying to others."
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Personal Development
"There is no failure in life. It is only an experience."
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Personal Development
Explore more quotes by John McGahern
"When I start to write, words have become physical presence. It was to see if I could bring that private world to life that found its first expression through reading. I really dislike the romantic notion of the artist."
Life
"When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody."
Attitude
"I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years."
Time
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
Time
"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."
Language
"I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor."
Love
"I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
Truth
"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
"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
"Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth century."
Society
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