J.G. Farrell Quotes

Life is sad enough without people writing sad books.

There's one good kind of writer - a dead one.

When a man thinks he is reading the character of another, he is often unconsciously betraying his own.

I think it was Rose Macaulay who said, "A house unkept cannot be so distressing as a life unlived."

Two and a half thousand left-handed people are killed every year using things made for right-handed people.

Motherhood is all-encompassing, and in a way, as the mother, you're the star of the household.

As you'll know yourself, there are these moments when you're writing a book when one remark or moment will pull everything together and you'll think, "That's it. I've got what I need."

As other authors have realized, heat can have a strange effect on us, can cause odd chemical reactions in the brain. Heat can bring out secrets; it can change people's personalities.

Why isn't life better designed so it warns you when terrible things are about to happen?

She has spent most of the day reading and is feeling rather out of touch with reality, as if her own life has become insubstantial in the face of the fiction she's been absorbed in.

The Chilean novelist Isabel Allende says there's no such thing as writer's block, you just need to live a bit more. I try to bear that in mind.

I have two sisters, and I think siblings are always going to be irresistible for novelists. They have been throughout time and they'll continue to be.

It is a terrible thing to want something you cannot have. It takes you over. I couldn't think straight because of it. There was no one else, I realized, whom I could possibly tell.

What one gets, I hope, is that all you can do is the best you can do.

We have seen economic growth. But we have not seen earnings growth.

What we are seeing here is environmental injustice

It's a losers' game to try and guess, it really is.

I can think of some things that would be fun, but I'm living my dreams.

I love being able to escape my past, even though my past was great.

A lot of girls walk this earth telling people they've slept with me. And a lot of them did. But I don't remember 95 percent of them.

I'm always working on concepts and ideas for the future.

I think it would be slightly perverse to continue tempting fate by going back to the same places and doing the same sort of thing.

It wasn't something I started off in my teens or early twenties thinking I want to be a war correspondent. I still don't think of myself as a war correspondent. I'm not. I'm a foreign correspondent.

Conflict is part of being a foreign correspondent; spending long hours talking to politicians in capitals is another part of it.

War is part of what I do, it's not what I do. It's certainly not what I am and who I am.

Do not brood. It makes the moment you are living in unavailable for learning and life.

I was very happy that I was as normal as possible before I went into serious dance.

Of course, in the art class, I was the model.

Good theater should always send people away feeling changed.

But what was my motivation was music, and the fact that I love to move around. I'm always moving around.

Faith is obscure. By faith a man moves through darkness; but he moves securely, his hand in the hand of God. He is literally seeing through the eyes of God.

Perhaps some day, modern people will learn that mystery is not the prison of the mind of people, it is their home.

Our choice of partners is one of the clearest statements about our choice of values.

Nobody has said to men, It is OK if you want to be a full-time dad; find a woman who will support you.

If women really earned fifty-nine cents to the dollar for the same work as men, what business could compete effectively by hiring men at any level?

The key to wealth is not what we earn. It is in what is spent on us.

When I feel very loved, when I nurture and support people, my experience is deepened. I feel connected to a larger purpose and meaning.

Is there discrimination against women? Yes. There's no denying that the old boys' network is alive and well. But there's also discrimination against men.

Feminism justified female victim power by convincing the world that we lived in a sexist, male-dominated, and patriarchal world.

Perhaps the most prevailing expectation of men is our Superman expectation: the fear we are merely Clark Kents who won't be accepted unless we are a Superman.

Just as the Depression left a generation of dads feeling they never had enough money, so father deprivation is leaving a generation of sons and daughters with different psychic wounds.

Sexism is discounting the female experience of powerlessness; the new sexism is discounting the male experience of powerlessness.

Just as women needed the help of the law to enter the workplace in the 20th century, men will need the help of the law to love their children in the 21st century.

We have entered 'The Era of the Three-Option Woman and the No-Option Man.'

Sexual harassment in the workplace confuses rewards for performance with rewards for attractiveness and sexual availability.

Men give the same lines to different women for the same reason women wear the same perfume for different men; we all try the things that work.

Alan Alda is loved not because he's sensitive, but because he's successful and sensitive.

If a woman isn't being hazed, she's not being tested; therefore, she is not being trusted.

In one decade, women had gotten more protection against offensive jokes in the workplace than men had gotten in centuries against being killed in the workplace.

Men are the Rosie-the-Riveters of parenting. They're brought in only when needed, and considered disposable thereafter.