Julian Gough Quotes

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The novel cannot submit to authority. It is written against official language, against officialdom, and against whatever fixed form the novel has begun to take—it is always dying, and always being born.

Julian Gough

You said you didn't want to get involved with me, that one of us would get hurt and how you couldn't bear it. Well that just isn't good enough..Look what happens to people just living their lives. They get hurt, it's not fair they get hurt but they do, all the time, no matter how careful they are. Somebody can just just come along and hurt them, for no stupid reason..

Julian Gough

Love, I thought to myself abstractedly. Not 'This is love' or 'Is this love?' Not a sentence, not a certainty, not a thought with moving parts or direction. Just love, all of it, as it is. Whether it's enough or not. Wthether it's real or we're making it up. However shoddy it gets, or bent out of shape. It's still extraordinary. However foolish, however vain. However badly it ends. Love.

Julian Gough

Julian Gough

Julian Gough

Born: 1966 (age 58)

Bio: Julian Gough is an Irish novelist, economic satirist and the former singer and main lyric writer of the Irish band Toasted Heretic.

Known for:

Juno and Juliet (2001)
Rabbit and Bear: 1: Rabbit's Bad Habits (2016)
Jude in London (2011)
Jude: Level 1 (2007)
Free Sex Chocolate: Poems & Songs (2010)

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