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Autumn arrives in early morning, but spring at the close of a winter day.

Pity the selfishness of lovers: it is brief, a forlorn hope; it is impossible.

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Illusions are art, for the feeling person, and it is by art that we live, if we do.

That is partly why women marry - to keep up the fiction of being in the hub of things.

Mechanical difficulties with language are the outcome of internal difficulties with thought.

The innocent are so few that two of them seldom meet - when they do meet, their victims lie strewn all round.

Meeting people unlike oneself does not enlarge one's outlook; it only confirms one's idea that one is unique.

The wish to lead out one's lover must be a tribal feeling; the wish to be seen as loved is part of one's self-respect.

I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road.

I became, and remain, my characters' close and intent watcher: their director, never. Their creator I cannot feel that I was, or am.

The best that an individual can do is to concentrate on what he or she can do, in the course of a burning effort to do it better.

Nothing can happen nowhere. The locale of the happening always colours the happening, and often, to a degree, shapes it.

Ireland is a great country to die or be married in.

The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.

Fantasy is toxic: the private cruelty and the world war both have their start in the heated brain.

If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea.

Education is not so important as people think.

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