John Boyne quotes - page 2

And who decided which people wore the striped pajamas and which people wore the uniforms? (John Boyne)
" he said, which, he presumed, was another way of saying, "Well, goodbye for now, have a pleasant afternoon. View quote
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Regrets and apologies are all very well, but there's things that happen in a person's life that are so scorched in the memory and burned into the heart that there's no forgetting them. They're like brands. View quote
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I hope for so much from every book I read. And time and again, I find myself disappointed. I look across my bookshelves and see hundreds of titles which in my memory seem merely mediocre or second-rate. Only occasionally does a novel appear for which I feel a lasting passion, a book that I think could in time become a classic. View quote
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War today is such a more visible thing. We see it on television, on CNN. In 1914, war was a concept. View quote
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I don't buy into the idea that an Irish writer should write about Ireland, or a gay writer should write about being gay. View quote
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