"For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity."

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Source : Sebastian Barry (2008). “The Secret Scripture”, p.24, Faber & Faber

Sebastian Barry

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“There was kind of a code that you had as an Australian that you never left the court losing unless you had blood all over you. That's the sort of toughness you need to compete on the world stage and I feel that our kids today just don't have it.”
“I also don't like films that are made just to make money, no this kind of film I don't like.”
“Paradise for a happy man lies in his own good nature.”
“By working hard we could make an average of about $5 a week. We would have made more but had to provide our own machines, which cost us $45, we paying for them on the installment plan. We paid $5 down and $1 a month after that.”
“I grew up in the traditional American newspaper world with a morning paper and an afternoon paper competing with each other beat by beat by beat. It was the most fun I've ever had. And it was great for journalism.”

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“In Germany, you have a huge official memorial to the murdered Jews and then you have this artist who's been putting these stumbling blocks, these brass cobblestones, outside the houses Jews were taken away from. It's somewhat controversial and has met some resistance.”
“A compassionate willingess is required - as is the courage to live before the fact, before the understanding, before any rational support or certainty, to live the moment to its natural peak and conclusion, and to accept with dignity whatever joy, grief, misfortune, or unexpectedness occurs.”
“That glittering hope is immemorial and beckons many men to their undoing.”

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