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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"The inferior complex is now extended to all Europe, save Nordics."
"So I am getting a little bored with defining one type of film as American and the other European or from somewhere else because the division is no longer true."
"After the spiritual powers, there is no thing in the world more unconquerable than the spirit of nationality. The spirit of nationality in Ireland will persist even though the mightiest of material powers be its neighbor."
"When I was younger I was trying to do what I wanted to do, not what the game wanted me to do."
"I raised frogs every spring in our house from tadpoles and by end of summer our house was overrun with frogs."
"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
"If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European."
"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."
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
"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."
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
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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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"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."
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