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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Feel
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- Nov 07, 2020
You feel a sense of urgency, especially at my advanced age, when you're staring into the grave.
- Notebooks
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've been writing in notebooks for 40 years or so.
- Happiness
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- Nov 07, 2020
Happiness is hard to recall. Its just a glow.
- Experience
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all there is always that artistic challenge of creating something. Or the particular experience to take slum life in that period and make something out of it in the form of a book. And then I felt some kind of responsibility to my family.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
My childhood here... was very limited. So it was a long, long time before I actually went out to Brooklyn.
- Know
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- Nov 07, 2020
And, of course, they've always condemned dancing. You know, you might touch a member of the opposite sex. And you might get excited and you might do something natural.
- Absurdity
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- Nov 07, 2020
There's so much absurdity. Poverty is so absurd.
- Community
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had no accomplishments except surviving. But that isn't enough in the community where I came from, because everybody was doing it. So I wasn't prepared for America, where everybody is glowing with good teeth and good clothes and food.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
I had to get rid of any idea of hell or any idea of the afterlife. That's what held me, kept me down. So now I just have nothing but contempt for the institution of the church.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I admire certain priests and nuns who go off on their own and do God's work on their own, who help in the ghettos, but as far as the institution of the church is concerned, I think it is despicable.
- Mother
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- Nov 07, 2020
He came to the States in 1963, I think with a view to making up with my mother, but that didn't work. He came for three weeks, and drank his way all over Brooklyn. And went back... I went to his funeral in Belfast.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
Actually, my mother and Alfie came for three weeks' Christmas vacation and stayed for 21 years. I guess my mother never went back because she was lonely.
- Business
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- Nov 07, 2020
They all went into the bar business. Which was a mistake, because they began to sip at the merchandise and it set them back, set us all back. Well, them more than I.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm more interested in writing than in performing.
- Ex-Wives
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- Nov 07, 2020
I can't go too much into my domestic life because there are ex-wives ready to do me in.
- Book
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think I settled on the title before I ever wrote the book.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We never really had any kind of a Christmas. This is one part where my memory fails me completely.
- Home
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- Nov 07, 2020
If somebody wants me to speak in, say, Chicago, a limousine picks me up at the door to brings me to the airport. I fly at the front of the plane, and a limousine meets me at the other end to take me to a grand hotel, and usually an envelope is left for me with a per diem, maybe $150-a-day walking around money, and then I go home.
- Ghost
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- Nov 07, 2020
If ever you are to be visited by the Holy Ghost, you should make certain you're sitting beside a fireman.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
We were supposed to stay over in Boston, but when Scribners heard I'd won the Pulitzer, they told me to get on a plane - that Katie Couric wanted my body. And when Katie Couric wants your body, you get moving right away.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
They tell me I'm on 'Politically Incorrect' with Ollie North. That should be a lot of fun.
- Getting
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's like a series of waves hitting you. First, getting excerpted in the 'New Yorker' last summer, then getting published, then the best-seller list, the award, the movie deal, now this, a Pulitzer.
- Doing
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I first went up to see my editor, I was with my agent, and my editor said, 'Well, what have you been doing all these years?' And my agent said, 'He's been in recovery. From his childhood.'
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was a kid, I was a pretty good runner, and there was nothing like winning a race.
- Bigger
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came to America, I dreamed bigger dreams.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020