Quotes by Sebastian Barry

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Novelist, playwright and poet · Irish

Irish novelist, playwright and poet

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“How is that for some people drinking is a short-term loan on the spirit, but for others a heavy mortgage on the soul?”
— Sebastian Barry
alcohol alcoholism

“I am cold, even though the heat of early summer is adequate. I am cold because I cannot find my heart.”
— Sebastian Barry
summer

“Its a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots.”
— Sebastian Barry
injustice

“This (white settlers) was the section of humanity that was favored in that place, the Indians had no place no more there. Their tickets of passage were rescinded and the bailiffs of God took back t...”
— Sebastian Barry
injustice native-americans

“Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.”
— Sebastian Barry
politicians

“It’s a dark thing when the world sets no value on you and your kin, and then Death comes stalking in, in his bloody boots”.”
— Sebastian Barry
injustice