Niall Williams - History of the Rain (2014)

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Hope may or may not be a Thing with Feathers. But it's definitely a Thing with Claws.

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The water is this marvellous blue. It's so blue that once you see it you realise you've never seen blue before. That other thing you were calling blue is some other colour, it's not blue. This, this is blue. It's a blue that comes down from the sky into the water so that when you look in the sea you think sky and when you look at the sky you think sea.

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All writers are waiting for replies. That's what I've learned. Maybe all human beings are

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When you're different you've got two choices. You can stand out or you step back.

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When my father first took me to Ennis Library I went down among the shelves and felt company, not only the company of writers, but the readers too, because they had lifted and opened and read these books. The books were worn in a way they can only get worn by hands and eyes and minds

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We tell stories. We tell stories to pass the time, to leave the world for a while, or go more deeply into it. We tell stories to heal the pain of living.

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The world is more outlandish than some people's imaginations.

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