Mean Quotes by John McGahern

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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.

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John McGahern

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.

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John McGahern

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.

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We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

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John McGahern

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 Quotes by John McGahern

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.

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.

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.

We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places.

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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