The world is not full of betrayers, it is full of people with decent motives and a full desire to do right by those who know them and love them. This is a little-known truth, but I think it is a truth nonetheless. Empirically, from all the years of my work, I would attest to that. I know it is a miraculous conclusion, but there it is. We like to make strangers of everyone. We are not wolves, but lambs astonished in the margins of the fields by sunlight and summer.
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these … - Sebastian Barry
I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must people it; I must have a history. . .. I'm looking for these …
- Sebastian Barry
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. - Sebastian Barry
It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life.
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. - Sebastian Barry
Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy.
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. - Sebastian Barry
I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood.
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the… - Sebastian Barry
I am old enough to know that time passing is just a trick, a convenience. Everything is always there, still unfolding, still happening. The past, the…
After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. - Sebastian Barry
After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it.
It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you ca… - Sebastian Barry
It is always worth itemising happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers for happiness while you ca…
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body. - Sebastian Barry
That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances a… - Sebastian Barry
I knew immediately something was terribly wrong, but you can know that and not allow the thought in your head, at the front of your head. It dances a…
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