#mo

Amongst Women concentrated on the family, and the new book concentrates on a small community. The dominant units in Irish society are the family and the locality. The idea was that the whole world would grow out from that small space. ↗

— John McGahern

#book #community #concentrated #concentrates #dominant

I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer. ↗

— John McGahern

#catholic #catholic church #christianity #church #class

I think technique can be taught but I think the only way to learn to write is to read, and I see writing and reading as completely related. One almost couldn't exist without the other. ↗

— John McGahern

#completely #exist #i #i see #i think

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 century. ↗

— John McGahern

#almost #century #ireland #nineteenth #nineteenth century

Birth and death; we all move between these two unknowns. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#between #birth #move #these #two

Comfort in expressing your emotions will allow you to share the best of yourself with others, but not being able to control your emotions will reveal your worst. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#allow #being #best #comfort #control

True love is quiescent, except in the nascent moments of true humility. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#except #humility #love is #moments #nascent

The best way to win against the intolerable is to tolerate them, for this they have seldom dealt with. Your indulgence may soften their malice and open their eyes to more honorable ways. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Emotion is often what we rely upon to carry us across the unfathomable voids in our intelligence. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

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Enthusiasm is the energy and force that builds literal momentum of the human soul and mind. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#energy #enthusiasm #force #human #human soul