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Joseph O'Connor Quotes:

Joseph O'Connor quotes

Ocupation: Novelist

Life: b. September 20, 1963

Birthday: September 20

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If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else.

Topics: Work Out, Done, Entrepreneurship

quote love and freedom are such hideous words so many cruelties have been done in their name joseph o connor Quotes

Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name.

source: - Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.381, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Topics: Names, Done, Cruelty, Love And Freedom, Hideous

Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary.

source: - Joseph O'Connor, Ian McDermott (1997). “The Art of Systems Thinking: Essential Skills for Creativity and Problem Solving”, Thorsons Pub

Topics: Learning, Knowledge, Belief

I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill.

source: - Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

Topics: Business, Debt, Flamingos

It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends.

Topics: Mean, Matter, Creation

Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment.

source: - Joseph O'Connor, Random House UK (2004). “Star of the Sea”, p.11, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Topics: Rags, Prejudice, Enmity

Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning.

Topics: Morning, Dublin, Pubs, Purgatory

There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person.

Topics: Ambition, Persons

Everything is in the way the material is composed.

Topics: Way, Materials

(The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance.

Topics: Self, Stories, Form

The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know.

source: - Joseph O'Connor (1994). “The secret world of the Irish male”

Topics: Girl, War, School, World War One

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