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One hand washeth another, both the face. [Lat. , Una mano lava l'altra, ed ambedue lavano il volto. ]

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John McGahern

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, Reading, Romantic, Start, Write, Writing
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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 Far, so good. '

Building, Empires, Heard, Optimist, Say, Window

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.

English, Identity, Knows, Rain, Skies, Sky

. . . with a rush of feeling he felt that this must be happiness. As soon as the thought came to him, he fought it back, blaming the whiskey. The very idea was as dangerous as presumptive speech: happiness could not be sought or worried into being, or even fully grasped; it should be allowed its own slow pace so that it passes unnoticed, if it ever comes at all.

Ideas, Feelings, Pace, Slow, Grasped, Idea

The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

Journey, Calm, Life Is, Nothing, Change, Happens

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.

Thinking, Differences, World, Private, Reader, Think
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