"A writer is not interested in explaining reality, heâ€™s only interested in capturing it."

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Brendan Kennelly

#Reality Quotes #Explaining Quotes #Not Interested Quotes

“I was quite surprised when I started looking at the lyrics for 'Punk Prayer'. Given its brutal style, I did not expect the lyrics to be so well written and thought through. But the more I understood of it, the more I realised that this was not only a protest, it was brilliant art as well. So I decided I would try to strip away the layers that made me sceptical in the first place, and focus on the desperate beauty Pussy Riot have conceived in this song.”
“Teachers can go on cruises with the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration and anyone can spend the summer as a volunteer in a National Parks and even earn money doing it.”
“In my belief, there's one spirit. I prefer to call it the Holy Spirit. I don't think it matters if you call it God or Allah or Jesus or Fred or David or too early in the morning or whatever.”
“The idea of the sacred is quite simply one of the most conservative notions in any culture, because it seeks to turn other ideas - uncertainty, progress, change - into crimes.”
“The Old (Testament) is in the New (Testament) revealed, the New is in the Old concealed.”
“I lost my way for a long time.”
“Learning is the only thing for you. Look what a lot of things there are to learn.”
“I think the only safe medium are books, because people like to hold books in their hand.”

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