"I think fiction lends itself to messiness rather than the ideal, and plays well with the ironies surrounding what happens versus what should happen."

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Source : Interview with Anis Shivani, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2011.

Colm Toibin

#Thinking Quotes #Play Quotes #Fiction Quotes

“I auditioned for 'Revenge Of The Nerds,' and I so did not want the picture. I didn't want it. I didn't want be in anything that had nerds anywhere.”
“Liberalism itself has failed, and for a pretty good reason. It has been too often compromised by the people who represented it.”
“The truth is that in my present life I don't remember that I ever was president”
“I shed more tears than God could ever have required.”
“A politician must often talk and act before he has thought and read. He may be very ill informed respecting a question: all his notions about it may be vague and inaccurate; but speak he must. And if he is a man of ability, of tact, and of intrepidity, he soon finds that, even under such circumstances, it is possible to speak successfully.”
“Our plan is to struggle against terrorism and have security for the country and help draft a democratic constitution as soon as possible.”
“Nothing has ever been said about God that hasn't already been said better by the wind in the pine trees.”
“Life has now taught me that love for things, like all unrequited love, takes its toll in the long run.”

Source : Adolfo Bioy Casares (1990). “Asleep in the Sun”, Plume Books

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