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.
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.
- Joseph O'Connor
Everything is in the way the material is composed. - Joseph O'Connor
Everything is in the way the material is composed.
(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.
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…
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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