Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't … - Frank O'Connor

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I think women don't grow up with the harsh world of criticism that men grow up with, we are more sensitively treated, and when you first experience the world of film-making you have to develop a very tough skin.

Frank O'Connor

Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

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I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

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All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

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The short story is the art form that deals with the individual when there is no longer a society to absorb him, and when he is compelled to exist, as it were, by his own inner light.

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I cant write about something I dont admire. It goes back to the old concept of the celebration: you celebrate the hero, an idea.

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