“September 11 was terrible but, if one goes back over the history of the IRA, what happened to the Americans wasn't that terrible.”
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I wanted to write about my mother as she should have been if she had not been messed up by World War I.
We use our parents like recurring dreams, to be entered into when needed.
The great secret that all old people share is that you really haven't changed in seventy or eighty years. Your body changes, but you don't change at all. And that, of course, causes great confusion.
There is only one real sin and that is to persuade oneself that the second best is anything but second best.
