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Sebastian Barry Quote: “It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.”

101. “It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that survive them, are more likely to be utterly lost not only to history but the family following them. Of course this is the fate of most souls, reducing entire lives, no matter how vivid and wonderful, to those sad black names on withering family trees, with half a date dangling after and a question mark.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.”

102. “Clinton and his cigar was so much greater a man than Bush and his rifle.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “I started to cry, not like a child, but like the old woman I am, slow, slight tears that no one sees, no one dries.”

103. “I started to cry, not like a child, but like the old woman I am, slow, slight tears that no one sees, no one dries.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “Thousands die everywhere always. The world don’t care much, it just don’t mind much. That’s what I notice about it. There is that great wailing and distress and then the pacifying waters close over everything, old Father Time washes his hands. On he plods to the next place.”

104. “Thousands die everywhere always. The world don’t care much, it just don’t mind much. That’s what I notice about it. There is that great wailing and distress and then the pacifying waters close over everything, old Father Time washes his hands. On he plods to the next place.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands.”

105. “A man’s memory might have only a hundred clear days in it and he has lived thousands.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity – pushes off hope like a boat without a rower, and lets it go as it will on the stream, and resigns himself to the tally stick of pain.”

106. “There is a moment in the history of every beaten child when his mind parts with hopes of dignity – pushes off hope like a boat without a rower, and lets it go as it will on the stream, and resigns himself to the tally stick of pain.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying.”

107. “No one minds life as long as they are not trying to leave it. Nor death, as long as they are not dying.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”

108. “People endured horrors, and then they couldn’t talk about them. The real stories of the world were bedded in silence.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “She was altered by time and how he wished he was to be the man to comfort her in that and avow to her that no lessening of youth would bring a lessening of love.”

109. “She was altered by time and how he wished he was to be the man to comfort her in that and avow to her that no lessening of youth would bring a lessening of love.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “Now all my mother’s things are dispersed also, and only this ladle has come from that time, passing through two or three sets of women’s hands. It scoops the bath water well enough, the little boy’s back glistens at me, with its slender spine, his skin as soft as gloves. I think of my grandmother, Bridget Dunne, and him, the past and the present. Her long set of bones lie in against the church in Kiltegan yard, his fidget below me.”

110. “Now all my mother’s things are dispersed also, and only this ladle has come from that time, passing through two or three sets of women’s hands. It scoops the bath water well enough, the little boy’s back glistens at me, with its slender spine, his skin as soft as gloves. I think of my grandmother, Bridget Dunne, and him, the past and the present. Her long set of bones lie in against the church in Kiltegan yard, his fidget below me.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “I must admit there are ‘memories’ in my head that are curious even to me.”

111. “I must admit there are ‘memories’ in my head that are curious even to me.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “Some men make flower beds, and some men kill.”

112. “Some men make flower beds, and some men kill.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “And a man who can make himself merry in the face of those coming disasters that assailed him, as disasters do so many, without grace or favour, is a true hero.”

113. “And a man who can make himself merry in the face of those coming disasters that assailed him, as disasters do so many, without grace or favour, is a true hero.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “What is this growing old, when even the engine that holds our despair and hope in balance begins to fail us.”

114. “What is this growing old, when even the engine that holds our despair and hope in balance begins to fail us.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “It was not just because he was old, and looked old to them, but because he was a pensioned ghost from the strange past, a pointless survivor, an old soldier of forgotten wars. A remnant, with a torn gansey for a soul.”

115. “It was not just because he was old, and looked old to them, but because he was a pensioned ghost from the strange past, a pointless survivor, an old soldier of forgotten wars. A remnant, with a torn gansey for a soul.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man’s dominion of the earth.”

116. “For history as far as I can see is not the arrangement of what happens, in sequence and in truth, but a fabulous arrangement of surmises and guesses held up as a banner against the assault of withering truth. History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man’s dominion of the earth.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “My fate, my fate as woeful as my father’s, my ridiculous, heartless, funny fate.”

117. “My fate, my fate as woeful as my father’s, my ridiculous, heartless, funny fate.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “The Irish people. Poor stragglers stuck on the edge of Europe. Took a wrong turn on some ancient landscape. Could go no further and could not go back.”

118. “The Irish people. Poor stragglers stuck on the edge of Europe. Took a wrong turn on some ancient landscape. Could go no further and could not go back.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “It would all go on, for ever, the little glories of life.”

119. “It would all go on, for ever, the little glories of life.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “Slowly he edges nearer. He reaches out a hand, so openly and plainly that I believe I am going to expire. The held in breath of the audience is not let out again. Half a minute passes. It is unlikely any of them could of holded their breath like this underwater. They have found new size in their lungs. Down down we go under them waters of desire.”

120. “Slowly he edges nearer. He reaches out a hand, so openly and plainly that I believe I am going to expire. The held in breath of the audience is not let out again. Half a minute passes. It is unlikely any of them could of holded their breath like this underwater. They have found new size in their lungs. Down down we go under them waters of desire.”

— Sebastian Barry

Sebastian Barry Quote: “There is only a whisper of time between then and now, it seems to me. The clock of the heart does not follow the one on the mantelpiece.”

121. “There is only a whisper of time between then and now, it seems to me. The clock of the heart does not follow the one on the mantelpiece.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “A matter of belief, the first day of spring, like Protestants and Catholics differing over the mother of God.”

122. “A matter of belief, the first day of spring, like Protestants and Catholics differing over the mother of God.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.”

123. “He liked it for its modesty among the bigger efforts. Like a human soul should be in the world, among elephants, galaxies.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “John Cole, the keel of my boat. Thomas the oars and the sails.”

124. “John Cole, the keel of my boat. Thomas the oars and the sails.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “To him this was the whole point of retirement, of existence – to be stationary, happy and useless.”

125. “To him this was the whole point of retirement, of existence – to be stationary, happy and useless.”

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Sebastian Barry Quote: “Harrowed by hunger and ploughed through by sickness.”

126. “Harrowed by hunger and ploughed through by sickness.”

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