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"The Ireland I now inhabit is one that these Irish contemporaries have helped to imagine."
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"Ireland sober is Ireland stiff."
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"I have no nationality - the best possible status for an intellectual."
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"The drive toward economic nationalism is only part of the general revival of nationalism."
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"If nationality is consent, the state is compulsion."
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"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."
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"I am an American in every fiber of my body and in every heartbeat."
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"Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow."
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"I became a Republican when a very wise young lady asked me how I could remain a Democrat when I didn't agree with what they stood for and did agree with what the Republicans supported."
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"The English race is the best at weeping and the worst at laughing."
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"We may achieve climate, but weather is thrust upon us."
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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."
Memory
"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
Positive
"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."
Marriage
"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."
Thought
"I credit poetry for making this space-walk possible."
Poetry
"Without needing to be theoretically instructed, consciousness quickly realizes that it is the site of variously contending discourses."
Consciousness
"A public expectation, it has to be said, not of poetry as such but of political positions variously approvable by mutually disapproving groups."
Poetry
"There is risk and truth to yourselves and the world before you."
Truth
"I suppose you could say my father's world was Thomas Hardy and my mother's D.H. Lawrence."
Family
"Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained."
Hope
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