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I Feel I Grew Up In A Different Century Than I Live In. I Think Most Of Them Are Changes For The Good.
Thinking
Different
Grew Up
The Way I See It Is That All The Ol' Guff About Being Irish Is A Kind Of Nonsense. I Mean, I Couldn't Be Anything Else No Matter What I Tried To Be. I Couldn't Be Chinese Or Japanese.
Mean
Chinese
Matter
I Suppose . . . In Writing You Can't Have Regrets. I Mean, You Just Get It Down The Way It Was . . . It's Only Wishful Thinking That Things Could Be Other Than They Were.
Regret
Writing
Mean
My Father Was Very Outwardly Religious.
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Father
I Belong To The Middle Class That Grew Up Very Influenced By The Catholic Church. The People Of The Novel Are From A More Pagan And Practical World In Which The Christianity Is Just A Veneer.
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Catholic
When I Was In My 20s It Did Occur To Me That There Was Something Perverted About An Attitude That Thought That Killing Somebody Was A Minor Offence Compared To Kissing Somebody.
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Kissing
Killing
Without The Book Business It Would Be Difficult Or Impossible For True Books To Find Their True Readers And Without That Solitary (and Potentially Subversive) Alone With A Book The Whole Razzmatazz Of Prizes, Banquets, Television Spectaculars, Bestseller Lists, Even Literature Courses, Editors And Authors, Are All Worthless. Unless A Book Finds Lovers Among Those Solitary Readers, It Will Not Live . . . Or Live For Long.
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Editors
Long
I Mean I Think That's A Fact And I Think That We Had A Very Peculiar Type Of Catholic Church Here In That It Was A Fortress Church.
Mean
Thinking
Catholic
Yes, Though I Have Nothing But Gratitude For My Upbringing In The Church.
Gratitude
Church
Upbringing
I've Never Written Anything That Hasn't Been In My Mind For A Long Time - Seven Or Eight Years.
Eight
Years
Long
I Think My Mother Was Very Spiritual.
Mother
Spiritual
Thinking
Yes, But Also One Of The Problems For A Novelist In Ireland Is The Fact That There Are No Formal Manners. I Mean Some People Have Beautiful Manners But There's No Kind Of Agreed Form Of Manners.
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Mean
People
Born: November 12, 1934
Died: March 30, 2006
Occupation: Writer
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