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I'd much prefer to write more quickly.
— John McGahern
Whatever harm the evil may do, the harm done by the good is the most harmful harm.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
Most of the time the concept of globalization ends up sounding unnecessarily abstruse - even the name itself sounds clunky and highfalutin.
— Franklin Foer
Say what you will about the Ten Commandments, you must always come back to the pleasant fact that there are only ten of them.
— H.L. Mencken
... 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
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 feel I grew up in a different century than I live in. I think most of them are changes for the good.
— John McGahern
It was hard to believe that someone so beautiful could be real. I was afraid that he might disappear in a sudden puff of smoke, and I would wake up.
— Stephenie Meyer
I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.
— John McGahern
I'm the most transparent secretary of state because of that. I've been willing to say, "OK, read them [emails] all."
— Hillary Clinton
To leave the everpresent tension of Great Meadow was like shedding stiff, formal clothes or kicking off pinching shoes.
— John McGahern
We know we cannot plant seeds with closed fists. To sow, we must open our hands.
— Adolfo Perez Esquivel
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
People are funny. They look down from all sorts of heights and then if the looking down has no effect they get unsure.
— John McGahern
