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This is a city of the muses. For poets, painters and composers. This is the artists' enclave. This is Venice and Florence waiting to be explored, and I dream it still.

— Brian Keenan Between Extremes (2000)

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Consolation is about sharing loneliness and making it bearable.

Between Extremes (2000)

We both instinctively knew never to share weakness until you understood it. ‘Share only strength’ was an unspoken motto between us.

An Evil Cradling (1992)

Once again Chile reduces us to what R. L. Stevenson called 'the virginity of senses' where words cannot match the impressions received.

Between Extremes (2000)

Politics can only be a small part of what we are. It’s a way of seeing, it’s not all-seeing in itself, and people like me, who were fortunate enough to be born and educated before the start of the tragedy that has engulfed the North of Ireland, found the panacea of politics to be a bitter cul-de-sac.

An Evil Cradling (1992)

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