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John McGahern Quotes

John McGahern quotes about time

Irish Writer November 12, 1934 – March 30, 2006

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About this time, whether he felt there wasn't sufficient drama in his life or that he was determined not to be outdone by Miss McCabe, he decided that he was dying. John McGahern
For the girls the regular comings and goings restored their superior sense of self, a superiority they had received intact from Moran and which was little acknowledged by the wide world in which they had to work and live. That unexplained notion of superiority was often badly shaken and in need of restoration by the time they came home. John McGahern
As men obsessed with the idea that all knowledge lies within a woman's body, but having entered it to find themselves as ignorant as before, they are driven towards all women again and again: in childish hope that somehow the next time they will find the treasure, and then the equally childish desire for revenge since it cannot be found, that knife in the unfathomable entrails; and they grow full of hatred. John McGahern
I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story. John McGahern
John McGahern quote: "I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much..."
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy. John McGahern
John McGahern quote: "I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a..."
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years. John McGahern

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