All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually … - Colm Toibin

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I have not forgotten my story I want to tell Millennial women. I'm still waiting for them all to gather out there. I sent out a request for people to call Millennial that they know.

Colm Toibin

All writing is a form of manipulation, of course, but you realize that a plain sentence can actually do so much.

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Writing tends to be very deliberate. A novelist could probably run a military campaign with some success. They could certainly run a country.

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Life has a funny way of becoming ordinary as soon as it can.

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While historians may go on attempting grand, sweeping and defining narratives, they work in a time when readers know that another narrative always lies in wait, and that the more intelligent an historian is, the more tentative and self-scrutinizing the tone.

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Suffering is too strong a word, but writing is serious work. I pull the stuff up from me - it's not as if it's a pleasure.

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I have to write a first draft with a fountain pen before I type it up as a second.

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I have not forgotten my story I want to tell Millennial women. I'm still waiting for them all to gather out there. I sent out a request for people to call Millennial that they know.

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Never expect, never presume, always work hard and always be true to who you are.

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A man's hope measures his civilization. The attainability of the hope measures, or may measure, the civilization of his nation and time.

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To us who remain behind is left this day of memories. Every year--in the full tide of spring, at the height of the symphony of flowers and love and life--there comes a pause, and through the silence we hear the lonely pipe of death.

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