Micheál Breen
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You begin by downloading online dating applications. First, one. Then, two. You draw the line after three. Before you can even ponder your decision, faces appear. They fill your phone’s screen, in grid formation. A few of the squares are
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“Reason rather than faith has been my master … I have felt for some time that this doctrine of mine ill fitted me to be leader of the republican party … nature never fashioned me to be a partisan leader … For the sake of the cause I allowed myself to be put into a position which it is impossible for one of my outlook and personal bias to fill with effect for the party … every instinct of mine would indicate that I was meant to be a dyed-in-the-wool Tory, or even a Bishop, rather than the leader of a revolution.”
― Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
― Between Two Hells: The Irish Civil War
“I had given in to his story, his narrative, because it had been easier, and because of his persuasiveness—persuasion, which is only one step removed from coercion.”
― Audition
― Audition
“Take it from me, never wait for happiness to announce itself to you, because chances are it’s already happening.”
― Isaac
― Isaac
“Low-quality photography showed Michelangelo chests harnessed in leather, feet in sloppy football socks, their soles black with dirt, or headless bodies in tight underwear, obscured by streaky mirrors in gyms and supermarket toilets. One boy posed before a row of Portaloos at a festival, wearing a flamingo-print shirt and round sunglasses, the pink lenses all but concealing pill-fed pupils. Others lay in their bathtubs; climbed up metal steps at lidos; stood before lakes, castles or famous paintings; sat cross-legged on wind-battered sand dunes; or pinched the Leaning Tower of Pisa between thumb and forefinger.”
― Isaac
― Isaac
“This experience led me to form a hypothesis: perhaps the wisdom of birds resides”
― Piranesi
― Piranesi
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