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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The completely solitary self: that's where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also."
"He is indebted to his memory for his jests and to his imagination for his facts."
"I am one of the million or more male residents of the United Kingdom, who a year ago had no special yearning towards military life, but who joined the army after war was declared."
"Science is bound, by the everlasting vow of honour, to face fearlessly every problem which can be fairly presented to it."
"I don't want to beone of those easily forgotten people, so important at the time, so special, soinfluential, and so treasured, yet years later just a vague face and a distantmemory."
"I am a Christian. That obliges me to be a Communist."
"I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality."
"To maintain one's individuality, integrity, and true personality in the theatre is a big task."
"Bad people are, from the point of view of art, fascinating studies. They represent colour, variety and strangeness. Good people exasperate one's reason; bad people stir one's imagination."
"Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead."
"You accused me of murder. Do you make a habit of bringing schoolgirls into an interview room with murder suspects?' He waved his hand. 'Oh, I was only joking about that. I don't really think you murdered someone. Unless you did, in which case I reserve the right to say I knew it all along."
"There is nothing on earth so easy as to forget, if a person chooses to set about it. I'm sure I have as much forgot your poor, dear uncle, as if he had never existed; and I thought it my duty to do so."
"There's actually 14 in our family, but we disowned the others."
"I mean, y'know, platinum is different in every country, which can be confusing."
"No object is mysterious. The mystery is your eye."
"Oh yes, technique has definitely advanced. But you never advance without losing something en passant, and you lose it because you're paying so much attention to the new thing."
"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
"I wasn't always who I am now. No one ever is. I've spent my entire lifetime becoming who I am. Finally, I'm here and I'm old. It's depressing, it really is."
"My dear doctor, I am surprised to hear you say that I am coughing very badly, as I have been practising all night."
"Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies."
"We were the laughingstock of that first season... It was with great relish several years later that I received a TV Guide award for favorite actress on television."
"It is extremely difficult to get movies that cost more than $40 million to be made these days."
"I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat."
"Religion can be both good and bad - it is spirituality that counts."
"If you want to tell people the truth, make them laugh, otherwise they'll kill you."
"Genius not only diagnoses the situation but supplies the answers."
"It would be better that England should be free than that England should be compulsorily sober."
"I do not consider my self as having mastered the flute, but I get a real kick out of trying."
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