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The best of life is life lived quietly, where nothing happens but our calm journey through the day, where change is imperceptible and the precious life is everything.

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Among its many other obligations, fiction always has to be believable. Life does not have to suffer such constraint, and much of what takes place is believable only because it happens.

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Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood

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The imagination demands that life be told slant because of its need of distance.

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John McGahern

John McGahern

Born: November 12, 1934
Died: March 30, 2006 (aged 71)
Bio: John McGahern is regarded as one of the most important Irish writers of the latter half of the twentieth century.
Known for:
  1. Amongst Women (1990)
  2. That They may Face the Rising Sun (2002)
  3. The Barracks (1963)
  4. The Leavetaking (1974)
  5. Memoir (2005)

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