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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

When I say what I'm reading, this is what I need. I know the ills that plague me. — Sandra Cisneros

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

Yes, though I have nothing but gratitude for my upbringing in the church. — 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

If you only take small risks, you are only entitled to a small life. — Robin Sharma

Pride tells me to give it back, but common sense tells pride to shut up, have a joint and relax. I shrug and put the note into my wallet. — Mohsin Hamid

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

Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood — John McGahern

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

Monogamy is monotonous, but it's safe you know. And that's my philosophy. And I like to convey that to people. — Joy Behar

Life would be much easier if I had the source code. — Anonymous

The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance. — John McGahern

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

Numerous are the academic professors, but rare are wise and noble teachers. — Albert Einstein

My deep dark secret is that I was a nerd in school. I liked the theater. I liked to study. I wasn't very good at sports. — Rob Lowe