Mcgahern Quotes
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Mcgahern Quotes & Sayings
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I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
— John McGahern
... But all life turns away from its own eventual hopelessness, leaving insomnia and its night to lovers and the dying.
— John McGahern
I think my mother was very spiritual.
— John McGahern
Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.
— John McGahern
I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.
— John McGahern
I love the description of Gothic churches before the printed word, that they were the bibles of the poor.
— John McGahern
Here Lies Julius Schwartz. He met his last deadline.
— Julius Schwartz
I mean I think that's a fact and I think that we had a very peculiar type of Catholic Church here in that it was a fortress Church.
— John McGahern
But that private world, once it's dramatised, doesn't live again until it finds a reader.
— John McGahern
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
— John McGahern
To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.
— John McGahern
I feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
— John McGahern
Is adult amusement killing our children, or is killing our children amusing adults?
— Marilyn Manson
I've never written anything that hasn't been in my mind for a long time - seven or eight years.
— John McGahern
My father was very outwardly religious.
— John McGahern
He that enjoys naught without thanksgiving is as though he robbed God.
— Saint John Chrysostom
Your first kiss is never just a kiss but a beautiful place you get to visit only once.
— Colin Tegerdine
