“Tricky the paths a long love might follow, like the spiral down twists of a raindrop on a windowpane.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“One might trouble one's dainty snout with a whiff of the taleggio displayed in an artisanal cheese shop, or take a saucer of jasmine tea and a knuckle of fennel-scented snuff at a counter of buffed Big Nothing granite. But there was a want in these ladies yet, and it was for the rude life of youth.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“Mouth of teeth on him like a vandalised graveyard but we all have our crosses.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“It was one of those summers you’re nostalgic for even before it passes. Pale, bled skies. Thunderstorms in the night. Sour-smelling dawns. It brought temptation, and yearning, and ache – these are the summer things.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“Oh give us a grim Tuesday of December, with the hardwind taking schleps at our heads, and the rain coming slantways off that hideous fucking ocean, and the grapes nearly frozen off us, and dirty ice caked up top of the puddles, and we are not happy, exactly, but satisfied in our despair.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“It was Dominick Gleeson, aka Big Dom, editor of the city's only newspaper, the Bohane Vindicator. Of course, it was in no small part thanks to Logan Hartnett that the Vindicator remained the city's only newspaper. Its masthead solgan: 'Truth or Vengeance', as inked above a motif of two quarrelling ravens.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“Mouth of teeth on him like a vandalised graveyard but we all have our crosses. It”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“wisps of steam like spectral maggots rose from their damp coats in the inn's fuggyheat”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
“The Bohane all the while ferried a drag of gravel and stones and the drag swirled drunkenly deep down – it had the sound of chains being swung.”
― Kevin Barry, quote from City of Bohane
Kevin Barry
Born place: Limerick, Ireland
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“أما الآن فكما ذكرت آنفاً فنحن في اللحظة التي ندرك فيها وجود طفيليات العقل، نكون قد هربنا من فخها المنصوب بإحكام وهو فخ تاريخي في الواقع. فالتاريخ نفسه كان سلاحها الرئيس. لقد أوقفت الطفيليات التاريخ خلال قرنين من الزمن حيث أصبح التاريخ البشري رمزاً لضعف الجنس البشري ولامبالاة الطبيعة ويأس الإنسان في مواجهة الضرورة.
إنّنا في اللحظة التي عرفنا فيها أنّ التاريخ قد توقف، بات التاريخ غير قادرعلى احتوائنا. لقد عدنا بأفكارنا إلى موزارت وبتهوفن وغوتيه وشلي وأيقنّا صحة المقولة بأنّ العظام يمكن أن يكونوا طعماً جيداً للطفيليات، ووجدنا من غير المجدي التحدث عن الضعف البشري كون الجنس البشري يملك قوة هائلة مالم يستنزفها مصاصو دماء الروح أولئك كل ليلة.”
― Colin Wilson, quote from The Mind Parasites
“Complex ideas must be made simple, or they'll remain ideas and never be put into action.”
― quote from One Bullet Away: The Making of a Marine Officer
“Certaines relations harmonieuses se créent et durent grâce à un système complexe de menues contre-vérités, de renoncements, une espèce de ballet complice d'attitudes et de postures qui peut se résumer dans un proverbe jamais assez cité, ou plutôt une sentence, cette désignation lui convenant beaucoup mieux, Toi et moi nous savons, mais tais-toi et je me tairai. (ch. 5)”
― José Saramago, quote from The History of the Siege of Lisbon
“No.
You know this is wrong and you want to feel better about it.
You don't want to admit your as ruthless and monstrous as the demons you claim to hate.”
― Darren Shan, quote from Demon Thief
“Honoria, you see, is one of those robust, dynamic girls with the muscles of a welter-weight and a laugh like a squadron of cavalry charging over a tin bridge. A beastly thing to have to face over the breakfast table. Brainy, moreover. The sort of girl who reduces you to pulp with sixteen sets of tennis and a few rounds of golf and then comes down to dinner as fresh as a daisy, expecting you to take an intelligent interest in Freud.”
― P.G. Wodehouse, quote from Carry on, Jeeves
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