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Top 10 Pete McCarthy Quotes (2025 Update)

Pete McCarthy Quote: “Is it possible to have some kind of genetic memory of a place where you’ve never lived, but your ancestors have? Or am I just a sentimental fool, my judgement fuddled by nostalgia, Guinness, and the romance of the diaspora?”

1. “Is it possible to have some kind of genetic memory of a place where you’ve never lived, but your ancestors have? Or am I just a sentimental fool, my judgement fuddled by nostalgia, Guinness, and the romance of the diaspora?”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it’s generally much easier to get a drink.”

2. “I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it’s generally much easier to get a drink.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “Never pass a bar with your name on it.”

3. “Never pass a bar with your name on it.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.”

4. “There are huge creative advantages in having huge chunks of time when no one can find you. Emails and phones have diluted the experience of travel.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “Where’s the incentive to be frugal with life’s pleasures, to save up the pages in your favourite book for later, if you’re going to be plunged into the darkened abyss at some arbitrary hour? If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don’t save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.”

5. “Where’s the incentive to be frugal with life’s pleasures, to save up the pages in your favourite book for later, if you’re going to be plunged into the darkened abyss at some arbitrary hour? If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don’t save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “It’s always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.”

6. “It’s always stimulating to visit new places, acquire fresh knowledge and expand your portfolio of nightmares.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “If you’ve had the right kind of education, it’s amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.”

7. “If you’ve had the right kind of education, it’s amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “I find myself thinking, and not for the first time, just how useful wilderness must be when it comes to burying a troublesome relative, or a complete stranger.”

8. “I find myself thinking, and not for the first time, just how useful wilderness must be when it comes to burying a troublesome relative, or a complete stranger.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “I reckon if I can’t spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”

9. “I reckon if I can’t spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who’d learned his craft as a teenager from his father. We spent the day watching him double-distill brown bog water in two oil drums over a turf fire into something that tasted like the finest malt. Noel acted as interpreter, as the old man spoke no English. Perhaps he’ll have another adventure in store for me this time.”

10. “I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who’d learned his craft as a teenager from his father. We spent the day watching him double-distill brown bog water in two oil drums over a turf fire into something that tasted like the finest malt. Noel acted as interpreter, as the old man spoke no English. Perhaps he’ll have another adventure in store for me this time.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “If life is a book, then read it while you can.”

11. “If life is a book, then read it while you can.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player’s brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer’s.”

12. “Mind you, he looks a bit out of it, gazing around in confusion, as if his sax player’s brain has been removed and replaced with a drummer’s.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.”

13. “I will go outside, wander about aimlessly, and see what happens.”

— Pete McCarthy

Pete McCarthy Quote: “Immediately across the road is a ruined abbey and cemetery. As I haven’t visited one since late yesterday afternoon, I decide to take a look. On the whole, it’s fair to say that, if you’re travelling round the west of Ireland, an interest in ruined abbeys, however slight, will stand you in better stead than a passion for rollerblading, say or a penchant for showbiz gossip.”

14. “Immediately across the road is a ruined abbey and cemetery. As I haven’t visited one since late yesterday afternoon, I decide to take a look. On the whole, it’s fair to say that, if you’re travelling round the west of Ireland, an interest in ruined abbeys, however slight, will stand you in better stead than a passion for rollerblading, say or a penchant for showbiz gossip.”

— Pete McCarthy

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