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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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"Better keep yourself clean and bright; you are the window through which you must see the world."
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"The world is like a brute beast, you teach it how it should behave towards you."
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"CNN can still afford 36 bureaus around the world."
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"If you don't have an E-mail address, you're in the Netherworld. If you don't have your own World Wide Web page, you're a nobody."
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"Because as an only child, you have your own little world."
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"The world is but a perpetual see-saw."
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"Everybody says, 'You impress me as a guy who never wanted to be a movie star.' I say, 'Everybody in the world wants to be a movie star.'"
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"I am not the world's greatest Negro violinist. I am the greatest violinist in the world!"
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"The record industry is a world within itself."
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"The world has just got more dangerous because the things we use have got more dangerous."
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"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
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
Time
"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
"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 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
"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 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
"But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader."
World
"My father was very outwardly religious."
Family
"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
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