My father was very outwardly religious.John McGahernTheWorldMotivation.comTry New ThemeDownloadSharePin ItCopied to clipboard!“My father was very outwardly religious.
“I think there's a great difference in consciousness in that same way in that when we're young we read books for the story, for the excitement of the story - and there comes a time when you realise that all stories are more or less the same story.”John McGahernConsciousness
“I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy.”
“The rosary was said every evening. I always liked that sentence about the medieval Churches, that they were the Bibles of the poor. The Church was my first book and I would think it is still my most important book.”John McGahernBible
“When I was in my 20s it did occur to me that there was something perverted about an attitude that thought that killing somebody was a minor offence compared to kissing somebody.”John McGahernAttitude
“I think it's linked to the realisation that we're not going to live forever and that the way of saying and the language become more important than the story.”John McGahernLinked