The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. - Joseph O'Connor
Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
- Joseph O'Connor
Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary. - Joseph O'Connor
Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I kn… - Joseph O'Connor
The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I kn…
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person. - Joseph O'Connor
There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance. - Joseph O'Connor
(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
Everything is in the way the material is composed. - Joseph O'Connor
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends. - Joseph O'Connor
It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. - Joseph O'Connor
Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. - Joseph O'Connor
Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
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