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"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."
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"I've yet to find another soul who believes in me with the same fervency as my mother."

"I know you'll do what's best for Annabeth.""How can you be sure?""Because she'd do the same for you."

"Trust the perception not the presentation."

"Nyree taught me not to trust anyone but Steve quickly corrected that lesson and taught me not to trust everyone."

"To Confess Is To Surrender."

"Prayer is a conversation with the Father you trust."

"Authentic people are instantly more likable and trustworthy, which makes building rapport with them a pleasure."

"The fact that you do not trust your spouse or lover doesn't necessarily mean that they are cheating on you, and the fact that you do doesn't necessarily mean that they aren't."
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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."

"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."

"When I first encountered the name of the city of Stockholm, I little thought that I would ever visit it, never mind end up being welcomed to it as a guest of the Swedish Academy and the Nobel Foundation."

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

"The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself - as a vocation and an elevation almost."

"In fact, in lyric poetry, truthfulness becomes recognizable as a ring of truth within the medium itself."

"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."

"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
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