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"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
"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."
"We were very happy when a South African court, which had previously ruled against us, took another look and decided that this material was not obscene and allowed it into the country."
"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
"It still surprises me when I find something in any North Carolina newspaper that isn't mad at me about something."
"The Irish gave the bagpipes to the Scotts as a joke, but the Scotts haven't seen the joke yet."
"There is one day that is ours. Thanksgiving Day is the one day that is purely American."
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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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"Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America."
"Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality."
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