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Niall Williams Quote: “Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.”

51. “Everybody carries a world. But certain people change the air about them.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “After a liquid lunch in Craven’s, he had found the margins of the roads badly drawn.”

52. “After a liquid lunch in Craven’s, he had found the margins of the roads badly drawn.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.”

53. “All these squalls to which we have been subjected are signs that the weather will soon improve and things will go well for us, because it is not possible for the bad or the good to endure forever, and from this it follows that since the bad has lasted so long, the good is close at hand. Miguel de Cervantes, Don Quixote.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.”

54. “Because there were fewer sources of where to find out anything, there was more listening.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Neighbours, as Jesus knew, can be a not insignificant challenge to anyone’s Christianity.”

55. “Neighbours, as Jesus knew, can be a not insignificant challenge to anyone’s Christianity.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “As a shield against despair she had decided early on to live with the expectation of doom, an inspired tactic, because, by expecting it, it never fully arrived.”

56. “As a shield against despair she had decided early on to live with the expectation of doom, an inspired tactic, because, by expecting it, it never fully arrived.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “All of me knelt down. All of me bowed. Inside the chapel of myself, all my candles lit.”

57. “All of me knelt down. All of me bowed. Inside the chapel of myself, all my candles lit.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “I loved you once is among the saddest lines in humanity.”

58. “I loved you once is among the saddest lines in humanity.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need, rising and falling, falling and rising, full of doubts then certainties that moment by moment change and become doubts again.”

59. “In love everything changes, and continues changing all the time. There is no stillness, no stopped clock of the heart in which the moment of happiness holds forever, but only the constant whirring forward motion of desire and need, rising and falling, falling and rising, full of doubts then certainties that moment by moment change and become doubts again.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “By the end of the first week, the rules proved written on water and she nodded more often, becoming aware that an endless humility was what was required of us in the last act.”

60. “By the end of the first week, the rules proved written on water and she nodded more often, becoming aware that an endless humility was what was required of us in the last act.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being’s eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They’re not like anything else, or anyone else’s, and may be the most perfect proof of the existence of a Creator.”

61. “It seems to me the true and individual nature of a human being’s eyes defy description, or at least my capabilities. They’re not like anything else, or anyone else’s, and may be the most perfect proof of the existence of a Creator.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “For the most part we don’t realise how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right.”

62. “For the most part we don’t realise how fixed are our judgements of others, how founded they are in first impressions and the smallest evidences we seize on to prove to ourselves that, see, we were right.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “I know now that, when you get to a grandfather’s age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.”

63. “I know now that, when you get to a grandfather’s age, life takes on the qualities of comedy, with aches.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “It is a dolorous fact that a meal, months in the dreaming, weeks in the planning and days in the preparation, is eaten in minutes.”

64. “It is a dolorous fact that a meal, months in the dreaming, weeks in the planning and days in the preparation, is eaten in minutes.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Listen, here’s a human being who has suffered for love. It said Here’s a heart aching, and that ache was large enough, urgent and familiar enough, for you all to feel it and by feeling participate in something you yourself were either too timid, closed or unlucky to have known personally, or had known in the long ago of your own innocence over which you had since grown the skin necessary to tolerate the loss and stay living.”

65. “Listen, here’s a human being who has suffered for love. It said Here’s a heart aching, and that ache was large enough, urgent and familiar enough, for you all to feel it and by feeling participate in something you yourself were either too timid, closed or unlucky to have known personally, or had known in the long ago of your own innocence over which you had since grown the skin necessary to tolerate the loss and stay living.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Someone has said religion lasted longer in Ireland because we were an imaginative people, and so could most vividly picture the fires of Hell.”

66. “Someone has said religion lasted longer in Ireland because we were an imaginative people, and so could most vividly picture the fires of Hell.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “When you’ve been raised inside a religion, it’s not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There’s a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch it, but it’s there, whether natural or invented not for me to say.”

67. “When you’ve been raised inside a religion, it’s not a small thing to step outside it. Even if you no longer believe in it, you can feel its absence. There’s a spirit-would to a Sunday. You can patch it, but it’s there, whether natural or invented not for me to say.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “The truth is, like all places in the past, it cannot be found any longer.”

68. “The truth is, like all places in the past, it cannot be found any longer.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “I answered Annie’s questions about the day outside, about where the electricity crews were, and about myself, which last made dawn on me that it’s only when someone asks you about yourself that you exist in the fourth dimension of a story.”

69. “I answered Annie’s questions about the day outside, about where the electricity crews were, and about myself, which last made dawn on me that it’s only when someone asks you about yourself that you exist in the fourth dimension of a story.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “I am resolved on a career of reparation,’ he said. ‘And have you? Made amends?’ ‘It is one of the tragedies of life, that life keeps getting in the way of good intentions. I’ve made some. I’ll make more.”

70. “I am resolved on a career of reparation,’ he said. ‘And have you? Made amends?’ ‘It is one of the tragedies of life, that life keeps getting in the way of good intentions. I’ve made some. I’ll make more.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “You’ve still time to go back and right all the mistakes you’ve made.”

71. “You’ve still time to go back and right all the mistakes you’ve made.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Pieces of story she would discover intact in her. She would draw them into the air with a single phrase and be elsewhere for a moment, eyes distant and eyelashes winging as an image fleeted past. Christy would gently try and bring forth more, but like a fallen chandelier inside her the whole was shattered and beyond repair and there were only exquisite shards.”

72. “Pieces of story she would discover intact in her. She would draw them into the air with a single phrase and be elsewhere for a moment, eyes distant and eyelashes winging as an image fleeted past. Christy would gently try and bring forth more, but like a fallen chandelier inside her the whole was shattered and beyond repair and there were only exquisite shards.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Most of the time you don’t estimate the good or the bad you do and you have to operate on a small and labouring engine of hope with a blind windscreen and pray you’re going in a direction.”

73. “Most of the time you don’t estimate the good or the bad you do and you have to operate on a small and labouring engine of hope with a blind windscreen and pray you’re going in a direction.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Her mind was like a bookcase whose shelves had been pulled away, leaving the books pell-mell. All the stories of her life were in there, only confounded one into the other.”

74. “Her mind was like a bookcase whose shelves had been pulled away, leaving the books pell-mell. All the stories of her life were in there, only confounded one into the other.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “Nobody who’s lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything.”

75. “Nobody who’s lived an anyway decent amount of life remembers everything.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “But I didn’t give it more weight than that then, not yet realising you can turn a corner and find your life waiting there for you, and that if you walked past it, it would come after.”

76. “But I didn’t give it more weight than that then, not yet realising you can turn a corner and find your life waiting there for you, and that if you walked past it, it would come after.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “And because he hadn’t considered attaching blame, because he lived outside of the jurisdiction of all judgement and thought everyone was always doing their best, Ganga put a hand on Christy’s shoulder and squeezed.”

77. “And because he hadn’t considered attaching blame, because he lived outside of the jurisdiction of all judgement and thought everyone was always doing their best, Ganga put a hand on Christy’s shoulder and squeezed.”

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Niall Williams Quote: “We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn’t endure the certainty of suffering.”

78. “We all have to find a story to live by and live inside, or we couldn’t endure the certainty of suffering.”

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