John McGahern Quotes - Page 2

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• I suppose . . . in writing you can't have regrets. I mean, you just get it down the way it was . . . it's only wishful thinking that things could be other than they were.

  John McGahern

  Regret, Writing, Mean

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

  John McGahern

  Gratitude, Church, Upbringing

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• 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

  Thinking, Different, Grew Up

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• I belong to the middle class that grew up very influenced by the Catholic church. The people of the novel are from a more pagan and practical world in which the Christianity is just a veneer.

  John McGahern

  Class, People, Catholic

  "The whole world in a community" by Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. January 5, 2002.

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• When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.

  John McGahern

  Attitude, Kissing, Killing

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• My father was very outwardly religious.

  John McGahern

  Religious, Father

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• The way I see it is that all the ol' guff about being Irish is a kind of nonsense. I mean, I couldn't be anything else no matter what I tried to be. I couldn't be Chinese or Japanese.

  John McGahern

  Mean, Chinese, Matter

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• 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

  Mean, Thinking, Catholic

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• Without the book business it would be difficult or impossible for true books to find their true readers and without that solitary (and potentially subversive) alone with a book the whole razzmatazz of prizes, banquets, television spectaculars, bestseller lists, even literature courses, editors and authors, are all worthless. Unless a book finds lovers among those solitary readers, it will not live . . . or live for long.

  John McGahern

  Book, Editors, Long

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• I think my mother was very spiritual.

  John McGahern

  Mother, Spiritual, Thinking

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