6 Quotes & Sayings By Donal Ryan

"Donal Ryan is a writer, actor and performance artist whose work has been performed in Dublin, America, England, Australia Ireland and Germany. He has written over three hundred articles for major newspapers including the Irish Times and the Irish Independent. In 2011 Donal was awarded a €10,000 writing scholarship from the Arts Council of Ireland to write a novel. His first novel THE BORDER was published by Liberties Press in May 2013."

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That time is long gone. But aren't we still the same people? Donal Ryan
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How would I know what Jesus would have done? That fella was a mass of contradictions as far as I can see. One minute he says to turn the other cheek, the next minute he's having a big strop and kicking over lads' market stalls. He says blessed are the meek and he goes around shouting and roaring the odds to everyone. He rises from the dead and then shags off a few weeks later and leaves his buddies in the shit. . Donal Ryan
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Some things is easy do, when you have no choice in the world but to do them. Like shiteing into bedpan, in front of a nurse. Donal Ryan
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They loved him, or loved the thought of him, what they thought he was: a man who could easily have had a good life who chose instead their life: spite and bitterness and age-fogged glasses of watery whiskey in dark, cobwebbed country bars, shit-smeared toilets, blood-streaked piss, and early death. He could have helped it but didn't. They couldn't help it and loved him for being worse than them. He was the king of the wasters. . Donal Ryan
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I kind of thought actually that Trevor was gone completely mental when he called up here a few weeks ago. Like, why would he not text or email or Facebook? What's with all the reality, I thought. Does he not know he's a million times cooler in virtual form? Donal Ryan