"Despite being from Ireland, I've always avoided writing about it, for two reasons. For a very small country, Ireland has produced an astonishing number of literary geniuses, and at some level I probably never felt, having left as a toddler, that I had the right to try and add my voice. That's part of it. But I also didn't want to write something that was the equivalent of the Irish theme pub. You find them all over the world. The idea of producing a novel that might replicate that type of ersatz really set my teeth on edge."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Country Quotes #Writing Quotes #Trying Quotes

“Once I turned 35, I got the bonus of some wisdom and began to accept life on its own terms.”
“Knowledge is not power, it is only potential. Applying that knowledge is power. Understanding why and when to apply that knowledge is wisdom!”
“I have this idea that you can use glamour and still have it represent something that matters.”

Source : "Guru of celebrity kitsch turns to politics" by Vanessa Thorpe, www.theguardian.com. April 24, 2010.
“Among the major tasks before us none is of greater importance for our strength and stability than the task of building up the unity and solidarity of our people.”

Source : Lal Bahadur Shastri (1965). “Speeches, June 1964-May 1965”
“A proper autobiography is a death-bed confession.”
“If we don't like what's happening to us in the world, all we have to do is change our consciousness - and the world out there changes for us!”
“The theater, bringing impersonal masks to life, is only for those who are virile enough to create new life: either as a conflict of passions subtler than those we already know, or as a complete new character.”

Source : Alfred Jarry, Roger Shattuck, Simon Watson Taylor (1965). “Selected works: Edited by Roger Shattuck and Simon Watson Taylor”
“The interest rate you receive, however, is contingent on your credit score.”

Source : Source: www.nbcnews.com

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