159 Quotes by Sebastian Barry
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In the darkness as we lie side by side John Cole’s left hand snakes over under the sheets and takes a hold of my right hand. We listen to the cries of the night revellers outside and hear the horses tramping along the ways. We’re holding hands then like lovers who have just met or how we imagine lovers might be in the unknown realm where lovers act as lovers without concealment.
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There was nothing to see but in my mind’s eye I could see everything, because she had supplied the ancient cinema of this place.
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We were nothing to them. I think now of the great value we put on what we were and I wonder what does it mean when another people judge you to be worth so little you were only to be killed? How our pride in everything was crushed so small it disappeared until it was just specks of things floating away on the wind.
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The years return us gradually to the afflictions and shames of childhood, it is a curiosity of existence.
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History needs to be mightily inventive about human life because bare life is an accusation against man’s dominion of the earth.
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I am easy as a woman, taut as a man. All my limbs is broke as a man, and fixed good as a woman. I lie down with the soul of woman and wake with the same. I don’t foresee no time where this ain’t true no more.
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