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Quotes from Cal — Bernard MacLaverty

born 1942 Ireland

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8 quotes

"Cal, the world is full of gulpins who don't care who they hurt."

Cal (1983)

Violence is a bit like antibodies. Small doses build up until you can reject and be immune to the most horrific events.

Cal (1983)

"Love is a very strange idea. I never know what it is. When you were young it seemed to be all intensity and no opportunity. Later when you did get the opportunity the fire had gone out of it."

Cal (1983)

"Do you still want to - refuse to help?"
"I'm afraid so."
"Not to act - you know - is to act. By not doing anything you are helping to keep the Brits here."

Cal (1983)

"If you have a war on your hands you send for the Mr Crillys of this world. The hard men and the bandits are the real revolutionaries, if you see what I mean. They get things done, they punch the hole for us to get through later."

Cal (1983)

"What about you?"
"I would like to see a united Ireland, but I haven't decided the best way to go about it yet."
"I feel sorry for it."
"What?"
"Ireland. It's like a child. It's only concerned with the past and the present. The future has ceased to exist for it."

Cal (1983)

Suddenly a police Land Rover with its hee-haw siren blaring swung into the main road behind them with a squeal of tyres. It roared along and overtook them so fast its body tilted at an angle to the chassis.
Someone said, "Jesus, they'll sell no ice cream going at that speed."

Cal (1983)

"Once you've been through a tragedy you're scared of it ever after," Mrs Morton said.

Cal (1983)

Attribution

Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Bernard MacLaverty (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.