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"I have begun to think of life as a series of ripples widening out from an original center."
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"The condition you're in at this moment is the product of your previous thoughts, to change your condition, change your thoughts."
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"When life gives you pain, give life your unconditional love."

"You, your thoughts, and your imagination control the doorway to happiness. Service to the humanity is key to that doorway."
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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."

"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."

"I've always associated the moment of writing with a moment of lift, of joy, of unexpected reward."

"Whether it be a matter of personal relations within a marriage or political initiatives within a peace process, there is no sure-fire do-it-yourself kit."

"Manifesting that order of poetry where we can at last grow up to that which we stored up as we grew."

"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."

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

"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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