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Top 20 John Jeremiah Sullivan Quotes (2025 Update)

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.”

1. “I’m just saying, take courage. That and pretty much that alone is never the incorrect thing to do.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “The city of Cork – the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are – is actually an island, a river island.”

2. “The city of Cork – the urban center, where all the shops and bars and everything are – is actually an island, a river island.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.”

3. “The justification for rap rock seems to be that if you take really bad rock and put really bad rap over it, the result is somehow good, provided the raps are barked by an overweight white guy with cropped hair and forearm tattoos.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams.”

4. “Life before birth is a dream, life after death is another dream. What comes between is only a mirage of the dreams.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.”

5. “Reporting provides reminders that things are always more complicated than you think.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.”

6. “Freaky things happen all the time in the world. I suppose everything has to happen for the first time at some point.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.”

7. “Ireland starts for me with the end of The Dead, which my father read to me from his desk in his basement office in New Albany, Ind.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”

8. “It is a curious fact that the word essayist showed up in English before it existed in French.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.”

9. “Nothing vexes me so much in stupidity as the fact that it is better pleased with itself than any reason can reasonably be. It is unfortunate that wisdom forbids you to be satisfied with yourself and trust yourself, and always sends you away discontented and diffident, whereas opinionativeness and heedlessness fill their hosts with rejoicing and assurance.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It’s not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it – many were – it’s that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping...”

10. “This is why you can never reason true Christians out of the faith. It’s not, as the adage has it, because they were never reasoned into it – many were – it’s that faith is a logical door which locks behind you. What looks like a line of thought is steadily warping...”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.”

11. “Not watching TV gets me in a lot of trouble in my household because my wife and daughter have a lot of shows they like to watch.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.”

12. “We live in such constant nearness to the abyss of past time that the moment is endlessly sucked into.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “They are trying to live, but they have no room to breathe. So they try harder and breathe less.”

13. “They are trying to live, but they have no room to breathe. So they try harder and breathe less.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “He was the kind of guy who was always telling you what kind of guy he was.”

14. “He was the kind of guy who was always telling you what kind of guy he was.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Even the great anxiety of writing can be stilled for the eight minutes it takes to eat a pineapple popsicle.”

15. “Even the great anxiety of writing can be stilled for the eight minutes it takes to eat a pineapple popsicle.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “A good writer wants from us – or has no right to ask more than – intelligence, good faith and time.”

16. “A good writer wants from us – or has no right to ask more than – intelligence, good faith and time.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “Every unhappy family is periodically ransacked by joy.”

17. “Every unhappy family is periodically ransacked by joy.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.”

18. “At GQ, there was never a temptation to pander or preach to the choir because I had no concept of who the reader was or what that reader might want.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.”

19. “What’s old doesn’t need to be old-fashioned. It gets reborn.”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept “enemy” the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?”

20. “What harm is done by that commonplace word? What distinctions will not, cannot be drawn where enemy holds sway? Is the concept “enemy” the enemy of clear thought, therefore of justice? What is gained by its invocation? Perhaps as important, what is lost?”

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John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “I retain a stupid, Romantic love for pens and pads. The stuff of writing still affects me. And I’ve always been someone who will go to the bathroom in the middle of dinner to write down something, a word or idea, that for whatever reason had not wanted to be lost. You have to be a squirrel in that way. You have to be a chipmunk, and what you are collecting are combinations of words.”

21. “I retain a stupid, Romantic love for pens and pads. The stuff of writing still affects me. And I’ve always been someone who will go to the bathroom in the middle of dinner to write down something, a word or idea, that for whatever reason had not wanted to be lost. You have to be a squirrel in that way. You have to be a chipmunk, and what you are collecting are combinations of words.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

John Jeremiah Sullivan Quote: “He asked me to pour him some whiskey and announced flatly his intention to nap.”

22. “He asked me to pour him some whiskey and announced flatly his intention to nap.”

— John Jeremiah Sullivan

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