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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Initially with The Butcher Boy, there was this kid growing up in this strange, weird environment that I remember from when I was a kid. And Patrick's vision was so complete there."
"You will never change a prospective customer's mind, my boy. There is a chance that he might make a new decision if enough reliable evidence comes his way, but to do that he has to want to listen - to hear it - and that requires trust and respect."
"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something."
"Most of us believe in trying to make other people happy only if they can be happy in ways which we approve."
"Qualifying for the second stage would be a successful World Cup for us. I think we can do it."
"And remember: without you, all we are is loud. No pressure."
"I mean, the question actors most often get asked is how they can bear saying the same things over and over again, night after night, but God knows the answer to that is, don't we all anyway; might as well get paid for it."
"Poetry is always slightly mysterious, and you wonder what is your relationship to it."
"I would say the next imminent hot writers are often the writers from the decade before you were born."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle its distinguishing color and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"Whenever people agree with me I always feel I must be wrong."
"There are such beings as vampires, some of us have evidence that they exist. Even had we not the proof of our own unhappy experience, the teachings and the records of the past give proof enough for sane peoples."
"Can a farmer plants his seeds and then demand the crops to grow before harvest?"
"Spend your time designing the greatest reputation a man could possess."
"Conscience has no more to do with gallantry than it has with politics."
"The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor, he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them."
"I believe that in this world it is impossible to understand God."
"I will design myself a reputation, in which prospects can place their trust, and customers return to and recommend."
"I do think that, for instance, we've been very lucky to have theatrical careers and be associated with Shakespeare which sometimes gives you a kind of bogus kudos."
"What they do in heaven we are ignorant of; what they do not do we are told expressly."
"I never thought in terms of being a leader. I thought very simply in terms of helping people."
"The days of humiliation, of second-class citizens and of inequality are over and gone forever."
"Sleep, where in the waste is the wisdom?"
"Listening is a discipline. It's all about being present at that moment in time."
"Words are the clothes thoughts wear."
"I don't necessarily write everything as automatically assuming it will be collected, there's nothing that says Hitman will be collected, though it might be."
"No man who is occupied in doing a very difficult thing, and doing it very well, ever loses his self-respect."
"There are few, very few, that will own themselves in a mistake."
"Journalism is unreadable, and literature is unread."
"The Nazi movement is in many respects one which has my warmest sympathy."
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