"I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer."

-- John McGahern

#Class Quotes #People Quotes #Catholic Quotes

“What we have to do as a nation, and London as a city, is to get behind that figure and think what we are doing.”
“Jesus was an anarchist savior. That's what the Gospels tell us.”
“The universe may have a purpose, but nothing we know suggests that, if so, this purpose has any similarity to ours.”
“Warrantless wiretapping is an impeachable offense. It couldn't be any clearer.”

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“I enjoy the challenge of taking something which was not meant for the piano, distilling its essence and writing or improvising it for/at the piano, but having the listener forget that he or she is listening to a piano.”
“There has never been a book like this. At once a poetics of place, a work of deep history, a bildungsroman, and an acute inquiry into the big subjects: love, family, other animals, the nature of creativity. It is sublime. It's also very funny. Haunting and haunted, Hold Still is the memoir of an artist that is art itself.”
“Popular escapist fiction enchants adult readers without challenging them to be educated for critical consciousness.”
“In the last year I have gained a lot of experience because I have been playing against top players and realized what things to work on to get better. Top players basically tell you what your weaknesses are on the court.”

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