"In every question and every remark tossed back and forth between lovers who have not played out the last fugue, there is one question and it is this: Is there someone new?"

-- Edna O'Brien

#Lasts Quotes #Lovers Quotes #Back And Forth Quotes

“It's like a laboratory, a micro-society of real life, so it didn't look odd to talk about bureaucracy. In the school, in the class, there are already a lot of children from different ethnic backgrounds so the reality is there. I don't have to shove it in people's face. It's just there and it's normal.”
“As we immerse ourselves in the service of others, we find our spiritual selves and come unto Him.”
“Someone's parents have been singing entirely the wrong sort of songs.”
“In our culture, we have smart people and then we have the hot people. And the hot people have all the sex, and the smart people don't.”

Source : "NEWSLETTER SUBSCRIBE CURRENT ISSUE PREVIOUS POSTS The Pressure Cooker as Transcendence". The Believer interview, logger.believermag.com. January 15, 2014.
“IÂ´m a real believer that just doing a little something is a lot better than doing a lot of nothing.”
“It's sort of a feeling of power onstage. It's really the ability to make people smile, or just to turn them one way or another for that duration of time, and for it to have some effect later on. I don't really think it's power... it's the goodness.”
“I have never felt salvation in nature. I love cities above all.”
“I have a simple algorithm, which is, wherever you see paid researchers instead of grad students, that's not where you want to be doing research.”

You may also like:

Anne Enright
Author
Colum McCann
Writer
James Joyce
Novelist
John Banville
Novelist
John McGahern
Writer
Samuel Beckett
Novelist
William Trevor
Novelist
Andrew O'Hagan
Novelist
Frank O'Connor
Writer