Joseph O'Connor Professions : Novelist Born : September 20, 1963 Browse All Authors Top 11 quotes by Joseph O'Connor If you do what you've always done, you'll always get what you've always got. If what you are doing is not working, do something else. Joseph O'Connor entrepreneurship work-out done I feel these days like a very large flamingo. No matter what way I turn, there is always a very large bill. Joseph O'Connor flamingos debt business Politics' the polite word for antediluvian prejudices, the rags put on by enmity and tribal resentment. Joseph O'Connor rags enmity prejudice (The short story) is a form that has all the power of the novel - some would say more - but none of the self-importance. Joseph O'Connor form self stories The most important thing I would learn in school was that almost everything I would learn in school would be utterly useless. When I was fifteen I knew the principal industries of the Ruhr Valley, the underlying causes of World War One and what Peig Sayers had for her dinner every day...What I wanted to know when I was fifteen was the best way to chat up girls. That is what I still want to know. Joseph O'Connor girl war school Dublin was turning into Disneyland with super-pubs, a Purgatory open till five in the morning. Joseph O'Connor dublin pubs morning Beliefs: Those things we hold to be true despite evidence to the contrary. Joseph O'Connor learning belief knowledge Love and freedom are such hideous words. So many cruelties have been done in their name. Joseph O'Connor cruelty done names There is nothing worse than the ambitions of a talentless person. Joseph O'Connor persons ambition It is not a matter of ends justifying means: but of the creation of new means and new ends. Joseph O'Connor creation matter mean Everything is in the way the material is composed. Joseph O'Connor materials way Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
