#no

I used to take five or six books away and bring five or six books back. Nobody gave me direction or advice and I read much in the way that a boy might watch television. ↗

— John McGahern

#away #back #books #boy #bring

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

— Bryant H. McGill

#between #birth #move #these #two

The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese. ↗

— John McGahern

#anything #being #chinese #else #i

When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody. ↗

— John McGahern

#attitude #compared #did #i #killing

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. ↗

— John McGahern

#also #beautiful #fact #form #formal

I don't sit here and dream because I don't care about the future. I wouldn't take nothin' for my past and I've got enough behind me that I can write forever. ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#because #behind #care #dream #enough

That's what I liked about hitch-hiking. If a crowd wasn't big enough, I kept walkin.' ↗

— Brownie McGhee

#big #big enough #crowd #enough #hitch-hiking

The world is not fair, and often fools, cowards, liars and the selfish hide in high places. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#fair #fools #hide #high #high places

There is no love without forgiveness, and there is no forgiveness without love. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#love #no love #without

A mistake made by many people with great convictions is that they will let nothing stand in the way of their views, not even kindness. ↗

— Bryant H. McGill

#convictions #even #kindness #made #many