Joseph O'Connor Quotes
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If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.
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I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.
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It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.
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Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.
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(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.
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Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.
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The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.
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Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.
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Everything is in the way the material is composed.
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There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.
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Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.
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