Paul Murray





Paul Murray

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January 01, 1975 in Dublin, Ireland

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Paul Murray is an Irish novelist. He studied English literature at Trinity College, Dublin and has written two novels: An Evening of Long Goodbyes (shortlisted for the Whitbread Prize in 2003, and nominated for the Kerry Irish Fiction Award) and Skippy Dies (longlisted for the 2010 Booker Prize and the 2010 Bollinger Everyman Wodehouse Award for comic fiction).


Average rating: 3.70 · 5,852 ratings · 1,267 reviews · 6 distinct works
Skippy Dies
3.72 of 5 stars 3.72 avg rating — 5,533 ratings — published 2010 — 21 editions
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An Evening of Long Goodbyes
3.45 of 5 stars 3.45 avg rating — 308 ratings — published 2003 — 10 editions
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“Life makes fools of all of us sooner or later. But keep your sense of humor and you'll at least be able to take your humiliations with some measure of grace. In the end, you know, its our own expectations that crush us.”
Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

“Since when has love ever looked for reasons, or evidence? Why would love bow to the reality of things, when it creates a reality of its own, so much more vivid, wherein everything resonates to the key of the heart?”
Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

“Ignoring is what you are supposed to do with bullies, so they get bored and leave you alone. But the problem in school is that they don't get bored, because whatever else there is to do is more boring still.”
Paul Murray, Skippy Dies

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