I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward.
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Getting started, keeping going, getting started again - in art and in life, it seems to me this is the essential rhythm not only of achievement but of survival, the ground of convinced action, the basis of self-esteem and the guarantee of credibility in your lives, credibility to yourselves as well as to others.
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It is difficult at times to repress the thought that history is about as instructive as an abattoir that Tacitus was right and that peace is merely the desolation left behind after the decisive operations of merciless power.
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I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence.
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The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine.
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