"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."

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Source : "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

John McGahern

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“We are powerful magical beings.”
“The story of the Khazar Empire, as it slowly emerges from the past, begins to look like the most cruel hoax which history has ever perpetrated.”
“I nearly always find, when I ask a vegetarian if he is a socialist, or a socialist if he is a vegetarian, that the answer is in the affirmative.”
“I waited a lot of years and I dealt with a lot of criticism about certain things on my face, and once I turned 21, I still felt that I wanted to change that, so I did.”

Source : "Teen Mom’s Farrah Abraham Wears Blonde Wig, Talks Plastic Surgery". US Magazine Interview, www.usmagazine.com. November 20, 2012.
“It is shameful that millions of Americans are suffering the economic injustice of working a full-time job and earning a wage that leaves them below the poverty line.”
“Power is like saltwater; the more you drink, the thirstier you get.”

Source : Charles Colson (1992). “Inspirational Writings of Charles Colson”, Bbs Publishing Corporation
“China is one of the greatest cultures on Earth, and it is one of those countries that suffered immensely from colonialist horrors and humiliation.”
“Now it's virtually impossible to write a game that successfully provides challenge and frustration, and that's a shame. We are going to lose something that makes scientists, that makes doers, that makes hard-minded, witty, clever people, and I worry that those people aren't being made these days.”

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