Dermot Healy Quotes

#1. It's in a neighbor's house fiction begins.

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#2. There is nothing more awkward to look at, said Joejoe, than peasants in suits. They don't fit into them.

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#3. When I was 14 or 15, our teacher introduced us to Dickens' 'A Tale of Two Cities.' It was just for entertainment - we read it aloud - and all of a sudden it became a treasure.

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#4. ...and he suddenly opened his eyes and stared straight ahead into an empty space till slowly we returned into view. I can make small talk, he said slowly, I can do that but out of the corner of my eye I can see the dark approaching.

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#5. I write mostly in my office in the shed outside at home, but it can get very cold. I write best on the train, among people. As a writer you spend so much time away from people.

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#6. There isn't any distinction between a reader and a writer - reading is so much a part of it.

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#7. Truth is the lie you once told returning to haunt you

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