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"I wont be happy until Im up there, receiving the Nobel Prize."
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Kevin Gerard Barry was an Irish Republican Army (IRA) soldier and medical student who was executed by the British Government during the Irish War of Independence. He was sentenced to death for his part in an attack upon a British Army supply lorry which resulted in the death of a British soldier.
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"I miss journalism an awful lot."
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"I am hugely insecure and desperate to be loved and I want my reader to adore me, to a disturbing, stalkerish degree."
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"Art is a hideously painful business, you know. Pity me! Or at least buy me a drink."
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"A prize with money attached to it has a lot of prestige."
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"Ive been haunting bookshops and hiding behind display signs of TV chefs (Nigella is excellent to hide behind as she has a huge arse) as I spy on the short fiction section and see if anyones tempted by my sweet bait. Ive also been counting how many copies of the book are left in shops, and Ive been covering other “upcoming” authors’ books with mine."
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