3 Quotes & Sayings By Patrick Mccabe

The winner of the 1999 Man Booker International Prize, Patrick McCabe's nine novels have been described as "a unique and extraordinary achievement" (The Times). They include The Butcher Boy, which won the 1994 Booker Prize; The Cure at Alcazar and Other Stories, which won the 1995 Irish-American Literary Award; and A Child's Story. His other works include a book of short stories, On the Shore (2000); a novel, The Light Horseman (1998); and a memoir, The Butcher Boy: My Life in Two Hemispheres (2001).

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When I am at my work each day In the fields so fresh and green I often think of riches and the way things might have been But believe me when I tell you when I get home each day I'm as happy as a sandboy with my wee cup of tay Patrick McCabe
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You'll have to learn to forgive, " he said. "For if you don't, you know what will happen?"" What, Doctor?" I croaked, for my outburst had exhausted me." It will destroy you, " he said as he handed me the tea. A tear came into my eye when he said it for I knew it was true and I would have loved to be able to do it (not because of its destroying me but because it was right, and deep down I knew that) but I couldn't and the more I thought of it the more the blood came coursing to my head so that whenever I'd write I'd find myself clutching the pencil so tight I broke the lead how many times I don't know, hundreds. Patrick McCabe