"You create a world away from home and make new rooms for yourself. But when you arrive back home in your old rooms, the world you've made for yourself ceases to be real. Everything seems to crumble. Anyone who's been sent away to boarding school can understand that."

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Source : "You can take the man out of Ireland". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. April 25, 2009.

Colm Toibin

#Real Quotes #Home Quotes #School Quotes

“Plant the seed, set the target, live your life.”

Source : Twitter post from Mar 19, 2014
“The steadily inward look leads us all to death, nations as well as persons, and is equally infantile in them all. Perhaps the most useful thing I have learned in my lifetime is that the process of maturing gradually turns the mind away from the small-self to the greater-self that is only served by serving others.”
“There is no job feels as lonely as that of a fighter but there is also no bond closer than the one he shares with his corner.”
“Life is beset by many annoyances, and those that stand out above all are the life- insurance and advertising agents.”
“Sales bring out the worst in people.”
“What I saw in that country, I saw in that country and I saw people respect him and his family and that's what I mean about that.”
“The generosity, to me it’s less about the money and more about the support and the idea that people still care and love what Chris stood for and love him.”
“When I was a young woman, I had this friend who was really beautiful, and she would talk about how she was losing her looks, that she wasn't as pretty as she once was. She was gorgeous, and I thought, I'm going to stop this bad habit of self-criticism that I think a lot of women get into. You make a choice to be different.”

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