“For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community...” — John McGahern Quote

“For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970.”

“I think that each of us inhabits a private world that others cannot see. The only difference between the writer and the reader is that the writer is able to dramatise that private world.”

“My father was very outwardly religious.”

“I did not come to Washington to raise the electricity rates by as much as $40 per month as this plan would do.”

“Ampere was the Newton of Electricity.”

“It was important to feel that you were resisting the fascism around you. But we had no electricity to watch movies. We were imagining our movies.”