Top 21 Joseph O'Connor Quotes

#1. Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

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#2. Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

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#3. Everything is in the way the material is composed.

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#4. It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

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#5. The world's full of idiots, divas and assholes, mainly in Ireland. In Ireland, one cannot achieve anything if he is not a little wacky. That's a holy truth. It just simply cannot be otherwise.

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#6. They had no previous connection whatever with Connemara; but they saw connections where others who should have seen them simply looked the other way.

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#7. The English possessed as many words for stealing as the Irish had for seaweed or guilt.

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#8. Truly the angels are come among us every day. Our difficulty is so often that in our vanity and worldliness we so utterly fail to recognise them for what they are.

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#9. (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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#10. There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

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#11. Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

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#12. We still tell each other that we are lucky to be alive, when our being alive has almost nothing to do with luck, but with geography, pigmentation, and international exchange rates.

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#13. They had far more in common than either realised. One was born Catholic, the other Protestant. One was born Irish, the other British. But neither was the greatest difference between them. One was born rich and the other poor.

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#14. Happy as a threaded needle

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#15. 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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#16. How the prisoner and the immigrant are treated by the government, how the poor are treated and those without influence: this is secretly how the government would like to treat us all.

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#17. Boredom is a bit of a bore, to say the least.

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#18. That each man is the sum of his choices is nothing less than the truth. And each, perhaps, is also something else.

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#19. But as his father used to say when he had a few drinks taken, you couldn't expect bloody miracles when you were talking about God.

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#20. Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

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#21. It was mankind and not the Almighty that had ordered the universe; only a man could look at an accident and call it a creation with Himself at the centre.

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