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

A child is never the author of his own history.

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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?

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 quotes: I am as late as the rabbit in Lewis Carroll.

I am as late as the rabbit in Lewis Carroll.

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

The trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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

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 quotes: We have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.

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

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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.

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 quotes: I miss her face, its beauty, and its beauty lost.

I miss her face, its beauty, and its beauty lost.

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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

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 quotes: That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: Tears have a better character cried alone. Pity can sometimes be more wolf than dog.

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

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

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

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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.

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

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

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

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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 quotes: In those strange days when if anything unexpected could happen it probably would.

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

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

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

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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?

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 quotes: 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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: We were two wood-shavings of humanity in a rough world.

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

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

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 quotes: I guess love laughs at history a little.

I guess love laughs at history a little.

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

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

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

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 quotes: It had been a war of kingly poisons, in the air, in the memory, in the blood.

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

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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.

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 quotes: 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.

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

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 quotes: Because faithfulness is not a human question, but a divine one.

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

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

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

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

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

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

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 quotes: 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.

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

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

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

who might have been a preacher had she not been cloven

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

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

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

There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.

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

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

Sebastian Barry quotes: 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.

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 quotes: Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.

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

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

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

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

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