Pete McCarthy Quotes
I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.

-Pete McCarthy
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If you've had the right kind of education, it's amazing how many things you can find to feel guilty about.

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Just remember, it's an easy place to be at home in, Ireland. I think the people are very skilled at relating. I notice, watching the different nationalities on the mountain, the fluidity of interaction the Irish people have with the visitors, and with each other. It's a skill that's l . . . Read more

-Pete McCarthy
But once you cross the Shannon - even though geographically you have only come a short distance - different rules of time apply, and most people still understand the crucial secret of human happiness: that it's better to do a few things slowly, than a lot of things fast.

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That guy in the corner. Never tells the truth, as a matter of principle. Why answer a question, he says, if you can tell a good story instead?

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We had found nothing, and had been lost several times already in one morning, so this was shaping up into a top travel experience.

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I use the pay phone to call my friend Noel. The last time I was here he took me up a mountainside in Connemara with a seventy-eight-year-old poteen-maker who’d learned his craft as a teenager from his father. We spent the day watching him double-distill brown bog water in two oil dr . . . Read more

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Where's the incentive to be frugal with life's pleasures, to save up the pages in your favourite book for later, if you're going to be plunged into the darkened abyss at some arbitrary hour? If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don't save up any pages for later, because ther . . . Read more

-Pete McCarthy