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"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
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"The entire lower world was created in the likeness of the higher world. All that exists in the higher world appears like an image in this lower world; yet all this is but One."
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"But we try to pretend, you see, that the external world exists altogether independently of us."
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"Irreligion - the principal one of the great faiths of the world."
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"The world is not black and white. More like black and grey."
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"We need the Chinese to - you know, spend more, save less - consume more and not be so focused on exports. There are big changes we need in the world."
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"I am the only person in the world I should like to know thoroughly."
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"There are few things as seemingly untouched by the real world as a child asleep."
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"Making a million dollars is the simplest thing in the world. Just find a product that sells for $2000 and that you can buy at a cost of $1000, and sell a thousand of them."
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"One half of the world cannot understand the pleasures of the other."
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"We live in an instant-coffee world. Sometimes real-world solutions take a little longer."
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"Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space."
Family
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
World
"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places."
Religion
"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
"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 read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
Time
"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 fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts."
Truth
"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
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