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Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

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A novel…is the smallest number of characters in the least number of situations necessary to precipitate a given crisis.

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All I know from my own experience is that the more loss we feel the more grateful we should be for whatever it was we had to lose. It means that we had something worth grieving for. The ones I'm sorry for are the ones that go through life not knowing what grief is.

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I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

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A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

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Frank O'Connor

Frank O'Connor

Born: September 17, 1903
Died: March 10, 1966 (aged 62)
Bio: Frank O'Connor was an Irish writer of over 150 works, best known for his short stories and memoirs. The Frank O'Connor International Short Story Award is named in his honour.
Known for:
  1. Guests of the Nation (1931)
  2. First Confession
  3. The Lonely Voice (1962)
  4. The Big Fellow (1937)
  5. An only child (1961)

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