Colm Toibin Quotes

Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

Colm Toibin

Recitation: by Male by Female

Author Biography

  • Author Profession: novelist
  • Nationality: irish
  • Birth: May 30, 1955

Topics

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The backseat produced the sexual revolution.

Jerry Rubin

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With 'The Keep,' I began with a theory about pitting the isolated disconnection of the gothic realm against present-day hyperconnectedness. I emerged feeling that the gothic genre is all about hyperconnectedness - the possibility of disembodied communication - and that we now live in a kind of permanently gothic state.

Jennifer Egan

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You can't fatten the pig on market day.

John Howard

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While different people may approach opportunities in different ways, we need to base decisions on a fundamental set of values as we chart our course of action.

Ron D. Burton

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My on-the-court game was ordinary. I had a jumper but needed screens. I could go right but not left.

Marv Albert

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Having an affair with an intern is just an incredibly stupid thing to do.

Bradley Whitford

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I was smart, to tell you the truth. I'm not really bright, but I'm not stupid.

Bobby Vinton

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Human intelligence may not be the best trick nature has to offer.

Bryant H. McGill

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Ninety-nine percent of the things that seem weird in my life can be answered with my religion. Paganism is mostly about nature-worship. It's about being in harmony with your environment and bringing the world of spirit and world of man together. It's about balance.

Augustus Sol Invictus

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People in the Middle East may consider the U.S. an evil hegemony that has tainted their culture, but when I look at the growth of racial and ethnic tolerance and understanding in my generation in the U.S., and see those sentiments make it around the world, it makes me feel proud.

Aloe Blacc

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Policing of the disabled and how many deaf people get shot by cops is sort of insane. And it's not talked about.

Wyatt Cenac

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In everything I've written, the crime has always just been an occasion to write about other things. I don't have a picture of myself as writing crime novels. I like fairly strong narratives, but it's a way of getting a plot moving.

Peter Temple

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