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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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"We've got so many stories to tell, you know, we could take on the world."
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"So go ahead. Fall down. The world looks different from the ground."
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"What have you given the world it never possessed before you came?"
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"I think I'm in the same mood as ever, but in some ways more mature. I guess you could say that, at 65, when you've seen the world shape up as I have, there are only two things you can do: laugh or kill yourself."
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"We're very pleased to be on a show which is known and loved around the world."
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"And for the few that only lend their ear, That few is all the world."
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"Don't learn to do, but learn in doing. Let your falls not be on a prepared ground, but let them be bona fide falls in the rough and tumble of the world."
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"The honors of this world, what are they but puff, and emptiness, and peril of falling?"
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"The world has become one big grassy knoll, crawling with lone gunmen who think they're the Warren Commission."
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"Half the world does not know the joys of wearing cotton underwear."
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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."
Advice
"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
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
World
"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."
People
"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
"I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years."
Time
"My father was very outwardly religious."
Family
"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity."
Cultural
"I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor."
Love
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