"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."

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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."

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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."

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"Think you're escaping and run into yourself. Longest way round is the shortest way home."

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"When I die Dublin will be written in my heart."

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"And then I asked him with my eyes to ask again yes and then he asked me would I yes and his heart was going like mad and yes I said yes I will yes."

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"A nation is the same people living in the same place."

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"Mistakes are the portals of discovery."

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"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."

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"Love between man and man is impossible because there must not be sexual intercourse and friendship between man and woman is impossible because there must be sexual intercourse."

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"My mouth is full of decayed teeth and my soul of decayed ambitions."

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"The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails."

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