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"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
"It's best to keep America just like that, always in the background, a sort of picture post card which you look at in a weak moment. Like that, you imagine it's always there waiting for you, unchanged, unspoiled, a big patriotic open space with cows and sheep and tenderhearted men ready to bugger everything in sight, man, woman or beast. It doesn't exist, America. It's a name you give to an abstract idea."
"Every color I can think of and nationality, we were all touched by Dr. King because he made us like each other and respect each other."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"Then as the years went on and my listening became more deliberate, I would climb up on an arm of our big sofa to get my ear closer to the wireless speaker."
"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."
"My point is there's a hidden Scotland in anyone who speaks the Northern Ireland speech. It's a terrific complicating factor, not just in Northern Ireland, but Ireland generally."
"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."
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