"I've never put Northern Ireland into a novel because it's not my territory. I come from the South, so my imaginative territory is very much the Republic of Ireland rather than the North. Even though, if I wrote a novel about the North, it might sell more."

-- Colm Toibin

#Republic Quotes #Might Quotes #Territory Quotes

“You lose your grip, and then you slip into the Masterpiece.”
“The prayer life does not consist of perpetual repetition of petitions. The prayer life consists of life that is always upward and onward and Godward”

Source : G. Campbell Morgan (2012). “The Westminster Pulpit vol. III: The Preaching of G. Campbell Morgan”, p.58, Wipf and Stock Publishers
“More teenagers go to movies or rent a tape of a movie than sit down and watch sitcoms on television.”
“I grew up on that stage. I learned almost everything I know there.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“Our esteem is apt to be given where we know the least.”
“There are some kinds of men who cannot pass their time alone; they are the flails of occupied people.(Bonald, M.} There are few wild beasts more to be dreaded than a communicative man having nothing to communicate.”
“I could have gone on to be an engineer full time, except that there was more demand for my playing. But the love of working the board never leaves you.”
“I sometimes don't know what I'm writing when I start writing it, on some level.”

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