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Perhaps it’s because so many people claim Irishness that we keep putting our private jokes on higher and higher shelves, so you have to ask a member of staff to get them down for you.
“When you look at a piece of delicately spun glass you think of two things: how beautiful it is and how easily it can be broken.”
― The Glass Menagerie
― The Glass Menagerie
“confronted with sudden disaster we all focus on how unremarkable the circumstances were in which the unthinkable occurred,”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
“If you go home with somebody, and they don't have books, don't fuck 'em!”
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“To remember that God is not the nice man Jesus, who liked everybody and went around healing the sick; that God is, on the contrary, the one who makes people sick, who condemns people to death, for incomprehensible reasons.”
― Intermezzo
― Intermezzo
“Grief is different. Grief has no distance. Grief comes in waves, paroxysms, sudden apprehensions that weaken the knees and blind the eyes and obliterate the dailiness of life.”
― The Year of Magical Thinking
― The Year of Magical Thinking
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