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John McGahern Quotes

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.

John McGahern

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

Author Profession: writer
Nationality: irish
Birth: November 12, 1934 - March 30, 2006

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World Think Others Difference See

The 10 largest antitrust law firms in the United States have gone into the federal courts charging Monsanto with creating a global conspiracy in violation of the antitrust laws, to control the global market in seeds.

Jeremy Rifkin

Law Control Seeds Creating Gone

I think any real one-sheet for an album would say, 'Well, here's what I've been doing.' And that would be it.

John Darnielle

Think Doing Say Real Here Well

Among the American contemporaries I read with most enjoyment are several North Carolinians. I think the best poetry being written these days is being written by Southerners.

Robert Morgan

Best Poetry Think American Days

We have a song, 'Welcome to the Family' - we realized for the first time in our lives that people go through this every day around the world. There is someone very close to them that they're losing, every day. That song is, 'We know how you're feeling.'

Johnny Christ

Family Time Day Welcome Losing Song

Finds progress, man's distinctive mark alone, Not God's, and not the beast's; God is, they are, Man partly is, and wholly hopes to be.

Robert Browning

God Alone Progress Man Beast Mark

Liberals always exempt themselves from the rules that they impose on others.

Rush Limbaugh

Rules Others Always Liberals Exempt

Who can sit back as our towns and cities are torn apart by violence and be content with the status quo?

Martin O'Malley

Violence Back Status Quo Content Sit

A ban on paid priority is central to any real net neutrality proposal, beginning with the Snowe-Dorgan Bill of 2006. Indeed, the notion of 'payment for priority' is what started the net neutrality fight.

Marvin Ammori

Beginning Fight Real Payment Started

Every man has his follies - and often they are the most interesting thing he has got.

Josh Billings

Funny Man Interesting Got Most He

Prior to high school, I played a lot of neighborhood football.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

Football School High School High Lot

I think the boxing game is supposed to be a gentleman's sport.

Joseph Parker

Gentleman Game Think Boxing I Think

Recently, I had a hip resurfaced. It's different from a hip replacement because it's done with titanium. I like to think that it's the consequence of riding horses so strenuously, but I fear it's much more mundane and was just early-onset arthritis.

Jonathan Dimbleby

Fear Think Done More Riding Mundane