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1. "Fuck was the best word. The most dangerous word. You couldn't whisper it. Fuck was always too loud, too late to stop it, it burst in the air above you and fell slowly right over your head. There was total silence, nothing but Fuck floating down. For a few seconds you were dead, waiting for Henno to look up and see Fuck landing on top of you. They were thrilling seconds-when he didn't look up. It was a word you couldn't say anywhere. It wouldn't come out unless you pushed it. It made you feel caught and grabbed you the minute you said it. When it escaped it was like an electric laugh, a soundless gasp followed by the kind of laughing only forbidden things could make, an inside tickle that became a brilliant pain, bashing at your mouth to be let out. It was agony. We didn't waste it." ~ Roddy Doyle
2. "To claim that music is more important than oxygen would be trite and sentimental. It would also be true." ~ Roddy Doyle
3. "Dreaming was only nice while it lasted." ~ Roddy Doyle
4. "I live on an island called Ireland where most of the music is shite. I grew up listening to "Danny Boy"; I grew up hating Danny Boy, and all his siblings and his granny. "The pipes, the pipes are caw-haw-hawing." Anything with pipes or fiddles or even - forgive me, Paul - banjos, I detested. Songs of loss, of love, of going across the sea; songs of defiance and rebellion - I vomited on all of them." ~ Roddy Doyle
5. "-I love yeh, son, said Jimmy Sr.He could say it and no one could hear him, except young Jimmy, because of the singing and roaring and breaking glasses.-I think you're fuckin' great, said Jimmy Sr.-Ah fuck off, will yeh, said Jimmy Jr. -Packie saved the fuckin' penalty, not me.But he liked what he'd heard, Jimmy Sr could tell that. He gave Jimmy Sr a dig in the stomach.-You're not a bad oul' cunt yourself, he said." ~ Roddy Doyle
6. "I swooned the first time I saw Charlo. I actually did. I didn't faint or fall on the floor but my legs went rubbery on me and I giggled. I suddenly knew that I had lungs because they were empty and collapsing." ~ Roddy Doyle
7. "I remember I wanted to get away; I wanted to run. I couldn't stand any more. But I didn't want to run. I wanted everything to be perfect; everything was going to be great - I just had to be careful. I was responsible for it all. The clouds coming, I was dragging them towards us; my thoughts were doing it. I was ruining everything. It was up to me. I could control the whole day. All I had to do was make sure that I made no stupid mistakes. Don't walk on the cracks. Don't look at the clouds. It's up to you." ~ Roddy Doyle
8. "The best way to reveal a character is to get them to open their mouths." ~ Roddy Doyle
9. "He loved me and he beat me. I loved him and I took it. It's as simple as that, and as stupid and complicated. It's terrible. It's like knowing someone you love is dead but not having the body to prove it. He loved me. I know it." ~ Roddy Doyle
10. "I cried, a bit, as a spoke to Belinda on my mobile phone, in a quiet corner, perhaps the only quiet corner in Jaipur. I told her how I'd hoped Paul would read the forward, that he'd read how much I admired his work and how much I admired him, how much I just plain liked him and loved him. But, even as I spoke, I knew: Paul had always known that. He'd seen in on my face every time we met. What made me cry was the obvious, stupid fact that we'd never meet again." ~ Roddy Doyle
11. "Four generations of women--"I'm a woman," Mary said to herself--heading off on a journey in a car. One of the dead, one of them dying, one of the driving, one of them just staring out." ~ Roddy Doyle
12. "Terror. That was it." ~ Roddy Doyle
13. "She's a pot-of-tea-before-I-say-boo-to-you woman. There's always a pile of warm teabags in the sink when I come down, like what a horse would leave behind." ~ Roddy Doyle
14. "I was the ref. I was the ref they didn't know about. Deaf and dumb. Invisible as a wall. I wanted no one to win" ~ Roddy Doyle
15. "She's happier than Nicola. That's probably true. Alcoholics can stop drinking but what is there for the children of alcoholics? Is it always too late? Probably. She doesn't know." ~ Roddy Doyle
16. "No matter how close to personal experience a story might be, inevitably you are going to get to a part that isn't yours and, actually, whether it happened or not becomes irrelevant. It is all about choosing the right words." ~ Roddy Doyle
17. "Some of the people who look the most normal are probably the maddest people trying to look normal." ~ Roddy Doyle
18. "I'm not recognised that much. I'm just a bald man in glasses and there's a rash of them in Dublin. It'd be different if I had a mohican." ~ Roddy Doyle
19. "It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time." ~ Roddy Doyle
20. "Schools don't really allow failure and yet it's a valid part of any endeavour, not just writing." ~ Roddy Doyle
21. "Good ideas are often murdered by better ones." ~ Roddy Doyle
22. "I wouldn't go out of my way to experience the indignity of middle-age just because it might be good meat for a story." ~ Roddy Doyle
23. "Most working days I can be at my desk for nine hours a day." ~ Roddy Doyle
24. "The problem with being Irish... is having 'Riverdance' on your back. It's a burden at times." ~ Roddy Doyle
25. "She'd tried her hand at most things, but drew the line at honesty." ~ Roddy Doyle
26. "One day at a time, sweet Jesus. Whoever wrote that one hadn't a clue. A day is a fuckin' eternity" ~ Roddy Doyle
27. "I jumped on Sinbad's bottle. Nothing happened. I didn't do it again. Sometimes when nothing happened it was really getting ready to happen" ~ Roddy Doyle
28. "We parked our bikes on verges so they could graze." ~ Roddy Doyle
29. "I do enjoy Gothic fiction or books about zombies if they are well written and I like vampires." ~ Roddy Doyle
30. "I had to make sure I kept an eye on the real world." ~ Roddy Doyle
31. "I like naming characters." ~ Roddy Doyle
32. "I see people in terms of dialogue and I believe that people are their talk." ~ Roddy Doyle
33. "I tend to plan as I write. And I want to leave myself open and the character open to keep on going until it seems to be the time to stop." ~ Roddy Doyle
34. "I write short stories when a little idea occurs to me, that I know isn't a part of a novel that will stand by itself and should be concentrated." ~ Roddy Doyle
35. "It's great meeting children because you never know what they will say." ~ Roddy Doyle
36. "It's hard for me to measure them, or to assess my books because I'm so close to them." ~ Roddy Doyle
37. "My novels come from within me; they are things I feel I want to do." ~ Roddy Doyle
38. "My parents were sixty years married." ~ Roddy Doyle
39. "lalala" ~ Roddy Doyle
40. "It was a sign of growing up, when the dark made no more difference to you than the day." ~ Roddy Doyle
41. "Do ghosts drink tea?They don't, said Tansey. But this ghost would love to see a cup of tea in front of her. It'd be lovely." ~ Roddy Doyle

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