Ciaran Carson quotes
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“I am reminded, now, of Leonardo's advice to painters: You should fix your eyes, he says, on certain walls stained with damp. You will see in these the likenesses of divine landscapes, adorned with mountains, ruins, rocks, extensive plains; and you will see there battles and strange figures engaged in violent actions. For in such walls the same thing happens as in the sound of church bells, in whose reverberations you may find every word imaginable.”
-- Ciaran CarsonSource : Ciaran Carson (2001). “Shamrock Tea”, Granta Books
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“Where am I coming from? Where am I going? A fusillade of question marks.”
-- Ciaran CarsonSource : Ciaran Carson (2015). “The Ballad of HMS Belfast”, p.14, Pan Macmillan
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“There's a whole language out there, and one's role as a writer is to stumble around in it.”
-- Ciaran CarsonSource : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview With Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
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“How do you say a thing at all, at the end of the day? How do you say what’s in your mind? And as soon as you say what you actually have in mind, it’s wrong, isn’t it?”
-- Ciaran CarsonSource : "A life in poetry: Ciaran Carson". Interview with Aida Edemariam, www.theguardian.com. January 16, 2009.
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“We live in a world that has walls and those walls need to be guarded by men with guns.”
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“A city with one newspaper... is like a man with one eye, and often the eye is glass.”
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Source : Jim Henson, A.C.H. Smith (2014). “Jim Henson's Labyrinth: The Novelization”, p.49, Simon and Schuster
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