The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths. - Roddy Doyle

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The best way to improve the American workforce in the 21st century is to invest in early childhood education, to ensure that even the most disadvantaged children have the opportunity to succeed along side their more advantaged peers

Roddy Doyle

The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths.

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If there is a heaven, Jane Austen is sitting in a small room with Mother Teresa and Princess Diana, listening to Duran Duran, forever. If there's a hell, she's standing.

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You know people are always putting Ulysses in the top 10 books ever written but I doubt that any of those people were really moved by it.

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It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time.

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Do be kind to yourself. Fill pages as quickly as possible; double space, or write on every second line. Regard every new page as a small triumph. Until you get to page 50. Then calm down, and start worrying about the quality. Do feel anxiety - it's the job.

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Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal.

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