Quotes by John McGahern

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  Anything that is given can be at once taken away. We have to learn never to expect anything, and when it comes it's no more than a gift on loan.

• John McGahern

  

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  I think fiction is a very serious thing, that while it is fiction, it is also a revelation of truth, or facts.

• John McGahern

  

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  I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.

• John McGahern

  

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  Nothing ever holds together unless it is mixed with some of one's own blood.
  Source: The Pornographe (2009) 14