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I’m always a great student of writers’ work habits. Balzac sat at his desk dressed in a monk’s robe, and he always had to have a rotten apple on his desk. The smell of the apple inspired him somehow.

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There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we’d all be in some kind of native costume – which doesn’t exist – and we’d be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.

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If you have a class of 35 children, and they’re all smiling, and there’s one little bastard, and he’s just staring at you as if to say ‘Show me’, then he’s the one you think about going home on the train.

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April 27, 2024

If you have a class of 35 children, and they’re all smiling, and there’s one little bastard, and he’s just staring at you as if to say ‘Show me’, then he’s the one you think about going home on the train.

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April 27, 2024

There was a kind of madness in the country. Eamon De Valera, the prime minister, had this vision of an Ireland where we’d all be in some kind of native costume – which doesn’t exist – and we’d be dancing at the crossroads, babbling away in Gaelic, going to Mass, everyone virginal and pure.

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