“I like to hide in Ireland, but I like to think of myself as an internal exile.”
John Banville: claiming Kafka as an Irish writer (2011)
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2010s
“I don't like the word 'alcoholic'. I like to think of myself as an advanced drinker.”
Source: My Horizontal Life: A Collection of One-Night Stands
Once Upon A Time in the East: A Story of Growing up, Chatto & Windus, 2017, page 269 (ISBN 9781784740689).
Memoir, 2017
“I like to think of myself as a director, on the pitch and in life”
Ibid [p. 49]
Letter to the Soldiers of Coroticus (c.450?)
Context: I am Patrick, yes a sinner and indeed untaught; yet I am established here in Ireland where I profess myself bishop. I am certain in my heart that "all that I am," I have received from God. So I live among barbarous tribes, a stranger and exile for the love of God. He himself testifies that this is so. I never would have wanted these harsh words to spill from my mouth; I am not in the habit of speaking so sharply. Yet now I am driven by the zeal of God, Christ's truth has aroused me. I speak out too for love of my neighbors who are my only sons; for them I gave up my home country, my parents and even pushing my own life to the brink of death. If I have any worth, it is to live my life for God so as to teach these peoples; even though some of them still look down on me.
“You are a manipulator.
I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.”
Variant: She smiled a little. "You are a manipulator"
"I like to think of myself more as an outcome engineer.
Source: Lover Eternal
Erika Jayne interview to Nightline http://www.bravotv.com/the-daily-dish/erika-girardi-on-creation-of-erika-jayne (2017)
NOW interview (2004)
Context: I wasn't gonna paint. And I wasn't gonna do ostentatious drawings. I wasn't gonna have gallery pictures. I was gonna hide somewhere where nobody would find me and express myself entirely. I'm like a guerrilla warfare in my best books.
