Jennifer Johnston Quotes

Jennifer Johnston
Irish Novelist
Born: Jan 12, 1930
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Related authors: Elizabeth Bowen Frank Delaney George A. Moore James Joyce John Banville Laurence Sterne Maeve Binchy Robert Graves
Writing about carrying the past on your back is a manifestation of my Irishness, because we go on and on and will for another two or three generations. Jennifer Johnston
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I think I have got a very good sense of humour; other people don't, but I do. I also laugh at my own jokes. Jennifer Johnston
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I didn't believe in a guardian angel when I was young. I was brought up in the Protestant faith, and the one thing you had over your Catholic friends was that you didn't have those awful saints chivvying you around. Jennifer Johnston
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My father was a little frightening - a huge man, six foot four - and he looked like God. He was always a visitor, as far as I was concerned, because my parents separated when I was nine. We only became friends when he was old and began to shrink. During the war, he was a BBC war correspondent and did some extraordinary broadcasts. Jennifer Johnston
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