Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners.
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 gho… - John Mcgahern
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 gho…
- John Mcgahern
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts. - John Mcgahern
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood - John Mcgahern
Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood
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 wer… - John Mcgahern
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 wer…
Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan. - John Mcgahern
Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth centur… - John Mcgahern
Ireland is a peculiar society in the sense that it was a nineteenth century society up to about 1970 and then it almost bypassed the twentieth centur…
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the … - John Mcgahern
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the …
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 … - John Mcgahern
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 …
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So… - John Mcgahern
My favorite optimist was an American who jumped off the Empire State Building, and as he passed the 42nd floor, the window washers heard him say, 'So…
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