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- Nov 07, 2020
Think Quotes
Quotes that share what people really think.
Many quotes here open with a direct 'I think,' offering personal beliefs - some lighthearted, like using comedy as a defense, others sobering, including grim predictions about where humanity is headed. A few weigh in on cryptography and the future of communication, a subject also touched on in Life Quotes.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think a misconception among many non-religious people is that anyone with a strong faith is, in all ways and at all times, blindly consistent, unwavering, unquestioning.
- Ethic
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- Nov 07, 2020
I learned really early on that I had to treat it as if it were a real job. This might be my middle class background - the Irish work ethic, which isn't quite the same as the Protestant work ethic - but still, it's, 'Get a job and show up every day. Be there. And don't complain. Who do you think you are: you're nobody special; go to work.'
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
Some readers sort of suspect that you have another book that you didn't publish that has even more information in it. I think that readers sort of want to be taught something. They have this idea that there's a takeaway from a novel rather than just the being there, which I think is the great, great pleasure of reading.
- Look
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it's handy for a dramatist of any sort, if I can call myself that, to make use of weddings and wakes, to make use of those moments and those rituals that cause us to pause and look back or look forward and understand that life has changed.
- Nov 07, 2020
I don't want to write about violence, and I don't want to hang a plot on a murder. I think it's cheap.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
Most of the characters I write with don't think an awful lot about their faith. They're not always questioning the church or feeling confined by the church or rebelling against the church.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I actually didn't think there was that many people out there who knew what it's like to not really have a home or have that home in one place.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't think I ever had a certain image of what touring was like... I think when you're young, you think it's very glamourous, but it's not.
- Next
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not going to release something just because they think it's the next hit. It's not what everyone wants to hear, but that's the way it is.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
The pillory and stocks, the gibbet, and even the whipping-post, have seen many a noble victim, many a martyr. But I cannot think any save the most ignoble criminals ever sat in a ducking-stool.
- Never
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- Nov 07, 2020
In twenty years I've never had a day when I didn't have to think about someone else's needs. And this means the writing has to be fitted around it.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
While working on my first five books, I kept wishing I was writing a novel. I thought until you wrote a novel, you weren't taken seriously as a writer. It used to trouble me a lot, but nothing troubles me now, and besides, there has been a change. I think short stories are taken more seriously now than they were.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think any life can be interesting, any surroundings can be interesting. I don't think I could have been so brave if I had been living in a town, competing with people on what can be called a generally higher cultural level.
- Job
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was a housewife, so I learned to write in times off, and I don't think I ever gave it up, though there were times when I was very discouraged because I began to see that the stories I was writing were not very good, that I had a lot to learn, and that it was a much, much harder job than I had expected.
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- Nov 07, 2020