Roseanne, Roseanne, if I called to you now, my own self calling to my own self, would you hear me? And if you could hear me, would you heed me?
Sebastian BarryTags: growing-up beauty identity youth
The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets. That is what brings us so full of longing to the sea.
Sebastian BarryThe trust of those in dark need is forgiving work.
Sebastian BarryTags: trust forgiveness
He was merely floating there in the room, insubstantial, a living man in the midst of life, dying imperceptibly on his feet, like all of us.
Sebastian BarryBut as I spoke to him, all I could feel was love. That was ridiculous. And I am deeply, deeply suspicious of it.
Sebastian BarryWe have neglected the tiny sentences of life and now the big ones are beyond our reach.
Sebastian BarryAnd what else could we have come here for, except to sense these tiny victories? Not the big victories that crush and kill the victor. Not the wars and civil ructions, but the saving grace of a Hollandaise sauce that has escaped all the possibilities of culinary disaster and is being spread like a yellow prayer on a plump cod steak - victoriously.
Sebastian BarryTags: victory joy meaning affirmation
Trench dirt didn't always wash out, I am sure.
Sebastian BarryFred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn’t sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced like a cheetah runs, with the grace of the first creation. I mean, that first week. On one of those days God created Fred Astaire. Saturday maybe, since that was the day for the pictures. When you saw Fred you felt better about everything. He was a cure. He was bottled in the films and all around the earth, from Castlebar to Cairo, he healed the halt and the blind. That’s the gospel truth. St Fred. Fred the Redeemer.
Sebastian BarryTags: fred-astaire
What is the sound of an eighty-nine-year-old heart breaking?
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