58 quotes found
Author · Irish · 1975
Irish author (born 1975)
“Life is a precious commodity, Charles. Its time you achieved your full potential and learned the true value of things. Youre talking like a Stalinist! I cried. People dont get jobs to achieve thing...”
“You always were such a worrier. It was as if you thought your worrying was all that held the world together, and if you stopped for a split second the whole thing would just fly apart.”
“Capitalism needs war.”
“The achievement of maturity, psychologically speaking, might be said to be the realization and acceptance that we simply cannot live independently from the world, and so we must live within it, wit...”
“If you do it in the bookies, it's a bet. . . . If you pay some 23-year-old in an Armani suit two hundred grand to go to the window for you, it's a derivative.”
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, it's our own expectations that...”
“I dont mind crack, I said. I like crack as much as the next man. But its not doing a thing for my nerves, and I already have a splitting headache I say, I dont suppose those heroin dealers carry An...”
“None of us mentioned An Evening of Long Goodbyes, whose race had been so catastrophic that, by the end, neither Frank nor I could summon the will to gloat. He had begun badly, getting his head stuc...”
“I dont see Number Four thoughoh. Number Four, wearing an unflattering chartreuse jacket, was sitting alone on the chewed-up grass, despondently licking his testicles. Hmm, I dont know, Bel . .”
“So this is the boom, eh? I said. Not exactly Scott Fitzgerald, is it? Ill tell you what its like, he said glumly. Its like being in Caligulas Rome, and everyone around yous having an orgy, and your...”
“Im just saying that once that have an excuse, people will do anything. They do what they are told, and they take their money and they think its all okay because its just their job, while their real...”
“THE ACCURSED SHIP didnt sink for a full three hours. By the time it did, I was feeling so traumatized that even watching Dogface die offered little consolation. The dialogue, the acting, the vast e...”
“On the trail of another man the biographer must put up with finding himself at every turn: any biography uneasily shelters an autobiography within it.”
“I do not think my life would make a very interesting book,' I say. 'I feel I can speak with a certain amount of authority here.”
“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expec...”
“Life makes fools of us all sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, it's our own expecta...”
“When you think about it, the Big Bang's a big like school, isn't”
“Fascinating ... The whole thing [the school dance] seems to work on a similar principle to a supercollider. You know, two streams of opposingly charged particles accelerated till they're just under...”
“It gives the war a whole new dimension, you know, hearing from someone right there in the thick of it. They really connected with it.’‘Maybe it reminds them of school,’ she suggests. ‘Didn’t someon...”
“History, in the end, is only another kind of story, and stories are different from the truth. The truth is messy and chaotic and all over the place. Often it just doesn’t make sense. Stories make t...”
