- Morning
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
Between the ages of 8 and 12 it was difficult to know what my father was saying, and he moved very slowly, and then he died.
- Father
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- Nov 07, 2020
I still have a stammer that I can control by not opening a sentence with a hard consonant, or by concentrating for a moment, breathing softly down. Growing up, the 'Our Father' was lovely, made for me, the 'Hail Mary' was gorgeous, and 'Glory Be to the Father' was an absolute nightmare.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Writer's block! It doesn't exist. You just long for ideas to go away so you have an idea of peace.
- Loved
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- Nov 07, 2020
I feel just fine about ignoring or bypassing the rights of people I have known and loved to be rendered faithfully, or to be left in peace, and out of novels.
- Live
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- Nov 07, 2020
I went to live in Barcelona in 1975, when I was twenty. Even before I went there, I knew more about the Spanish Civil War than I did about the Irish Civil War. I liked Barcelona, and then I grew to like a place in the Catalan Pyrenees called the Pillars, especially an area between the village of Flavors and the high mountains around it.
- Most
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- Nov 07, 2020
I lived in the Republic of Ireland. I wrote a book about the North but as an outsider. The hatreds there were not mine. I never felt them. I liked how open in most ways Catalan nationalism was, compared to Irish nationalism. I disliked the violence and cruelty in Ireland.
- Life
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- Nov 07, 2020