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Joseph O'Neill quotes: Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

Life itself had become disembodied. My family, the spine of my days, had crumbled. I was lost in invertebrate time.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: People in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

People in new york are authorized by convention to snoop around and mentally measure and pass comment on any real estate they're invited to step into.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

One of the great pluses of being an immigrant is you get to start again in terms of your identity. You get to shed the narratives which cling to you.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.

My instinct was to keep him at a distance, at that distance, certainly, that we introduce between ourselves and those we suspect of neediness.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

Who has the courage to set right those misperceptions that bring us love?

Joseph O'Neill quotes: There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

There may well be writers who roll up their sleeves and say, 'I'm going to write a post-9/11 novel' but I wasn't one of those.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

I think if you're writing about cricket, you're obviously writing about power, because cricket is such a loaded sport, much more so than soccer.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: He now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.

He now paid the allowance that permitted his son to live in frugal idleness.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

Sometimes to walk in shaded parts of Manhattan is to be inserted into a Magritte: the street is night while the sky is day.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe ...

It was the kind of barbarously sticky American afternoon that made me yearn for the shadows cast by scooting summer clouds in northern Europe ...

Joseph O'Neill quotes: I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

I was just a boy on a boat in the universe.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L - , Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

Hi. Thx for this. No idea. Sorry. L - , Your inquiry defeats me grammatically. Cheers.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

Bright-shirted racers of the Tour de France zoomed by like fantastically bicycling macaws.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

I have been to Turkey almost every summer holiday of my life and pretty much only on summer holidays, which makes me a very shallow Turk indeed.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

The word "Yankee" itself, I was informed, came from that simplest of Dutch names - Jan.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Publication is almost certainly a punishment for having written a book.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

New York interposed itself, once and for all, between me and all other places of origin.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Even my work, the largest of the pots and pans I'd placed under my life's leaking ceiling, had become to small to contain my misery.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Novel-writing is a bit like deception. You lie as little as you possibly can. That's the way I do it, anyway.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him.Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

I see, I tell him, looking from him to Rachel and again to him.
Then I turn to look for what it is we're supposed to be seeing.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

It takes a long, long time to write what I do write.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

I certainly want to continue to write in a way that's intimate. I love books where you feel you're having a romance with the writer.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

I'm completely cricketed out. If I never have to write another word about cricket again, I'll be a happy man.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

It won't be long before we'll be deafened by the screeches of whistles being blown by whistle-blowers blowing the whistle on themselves.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

If what you want to do is write, then it's madness not to do it.

Joseph O'Neill quotes: The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.

The greater the novel, the more it is apt to embody the special, non-replicable properties of the written medium.