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Brian Moore
Irish
Novelist
About the author
The world's made up of individuals who don't want to be heroes.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#Want
#World
#Heroes
The silent majority distrusts people who believe in causes.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#People
#Majority
#Causes
If misery loves company, then triumph demands an audience.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#Misery
#Company
As always on this boulevard, the faces were young, coming annually in an endless migration from every country, every continent, to alight here once in the long journey of their lives.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#Country
#Journey
#Faces
And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#Now
After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#Time
#First
There comes a point in many people's lives when they can no longer play the role they have chosen for themselves. When that happens, we are like actors finding that someone has changed the play.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#People
#Play
#Actors
When you're a writer you no longer see things with the freshness of the normal person. There are always two figures that work inside you.
Brian Moore,
Irish
Novelist
#Work
#Writer