"The city of Cork - the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are - is actually an island, a river island."

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John Jeremiah Sullivan

#Islands Quotes #Cities Quotes #Rivers Quotes

“People talk about the prestige of beating records but prestige never bought me dinner in a restaurant. It's winning games that does that.”
“The secret of life is to have a task, something you devote your entire life to, something you bring everything to, every minute of the day for the rest of your life. And the most important thing is, it must be something you cannot possibly do.”
“Money's only something you need in case you don't die tomorrow.”
“I was kind of scared of failing at acting.”
“On the whole, I prefer Christmas as an adult than I did as a child.”
“The only thing you ever have is now.”
“And autos are not the only product that could be made more energy efficient if we just put in place sensible requirements. This is also true of many appliances and even of entire buildings.”
“The brilliance of Max Brooks is that he always quotes authorities at the back of his books that never existed. Like a Russian professor he made up that validates a story or character.”

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