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A child is never the author of his own history. — Sebastian Barry

Names, names, all passed away, forgotten, mere birdsong in the bushes of things. — Sebastian Barry

It is always worth itemizing happiness, there is so much of the other thing in a life, you had better put down the markers of happiness while you can. — Sebastian Barry

I wonder if I were to have an X-ray at the little hospital, would the machine see my grief? Is it like rust, arheum about the heart? — Sebastian Barry

I am as late as the rabbit in Lewis Carroll. — Sebastian Barry

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work. — Sebastian Barry

three living men had seen horrors, and those who see horrors may do horrors just as bad, that is the law of life and war. Soon — Sebastian Barry

We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach. — Sebastian Barry

Our smiles mostly for each other, and every stranger a possible demon or bear, till they proved otherwise — Sebastian Barry

I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your genes and in your blood. — Sebastian Barry

I miss her face, its beauty, and its beauty lost. — Sebastian Barry

There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul — Sebastian Barry

That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body. — Sebastian Barry

The bottom was always falling out of something in America far as I could see. — Sebastian Barry

Things that give you heart are rare enough, better note them in your head when you find them and not forget. — Sebastian Barry

There's no soldier don't have a queer little spot in his wretched heart for his enemy, that's just a fact. — Sebastian Barry

Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog. — Sebastian Barry

Order returns to his addled head, and God no longer breaks eggs there in the morning" from "The Whereabouts of Eneas McNulty — Sebastian Barry

Book I still possess in all the flotsam and ruckus of my life, — Sebastian Barry

It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero of a peculiar, half-ruined film called our life. — Sebastian Barry

Those that we love, those essential beings, are removed from us at the will of the Almighty, or the devils that usurp them. — Sebastian Barry

There are moments when I am pierced through by an inexplicable joy, as if, in having nothing, I have the world. — Sebastian Barry

SPRING COMES INTO Massachusetts with her famous flame. God's breath warming the winter out of things — Sebastian Barry

my mother's wits were now in an attic of her head which had neither door nor stair, or at least none that I could find. — Sebastian Barry

For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity. — Sebastian Barry

In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would. — Sebastian Barry

Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure. — Sebastian Barry

Grizzled old bastard like him don't go providing death-bed transformations. — Sebastian Barry

Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me? — Sebastian Barry

We may be black-hearted men when our turn comes but there is a seam in men called justice that nothing burns off complete. Caught-His-Horse-First — Sebastian Barry

And whatever my life had been up to that day, it was another life after that. And that is the gospel truth. — Sebastian Barry

The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence. — Sebastian Barry

But as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of it. — Sebastian Barry

We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world. — Sebastian Barry

How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul? — Sebastian Barry

I guess love laughs at history a little. — Sebastian Barry

Because it strikes me there is something greater than judgement. I think it is called mercy. — Sebastian Barry

Four men killed that day. The phrase sat up in Willie's head like a rat and made a nest for itself there — Sebastian Barry

It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood. — Sebastian Barry

What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking? — Sebastian Barry

I suppose therefore God is the connoisseur of filthied hearts and souls, and can see the old, the first pattern in them, and cherish them for that. — Sebastian Barry

To be alone, but to be pierced through with a kingly joy, now and then, as I believe I am, is a great possession indeed. — Sebastian Barry

I am dwelling on things I love, even if a measure of tragedy is stitched into everything, if you follow the thread long enough — Sebastian Barry

Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one. — Sebastian Barry

We may be immune to typhoid, tetanus, chicken-pox, diphtheria, but never memory. There is no inoculation against that. — Sebastian Barry

The thing itself, the first thing, will never do us alone, we must be elaborating, improving, poeticising. — Sebastian Barry

After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously happy in it. — Sebastian Barry

It is worthless talking about what we have been spared by death. Death grins at that I am sure. Death of all creation knows the value of life. — Sebastian Barry

History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man's dominion of the earth. — Sebastian Barry

who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven — Sebastian Barry

He carried a highly ecclesiastical umbrella, like something real and austere, that said its prayers at night in the hatstand. I — Sebastian Barry

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship. — Sebastian Barry

I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart. — Sebastian Barry

There are some sufferings that we seem as a creature to forget, or we would never survive as a creature among all the other creatures. — Sebastian Barry

Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle. — Sebastian Barry

His first word, his first day at junior high. Nonsense things, the deepest, most important poetry of my life. — Sebastian Barry

THERE'S OLD SORROW in your blood like second nature and new sorrow that maddens the halls of sense. Causes — Sebastian Barry