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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Nobody can be kinder than the narcissist while you react to life in his own terms."
"A true gentlemen is one who is never unintentionally rude."
"You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back."
"In Ireland, it's been like U2 and The Cranberries, which is rock, but you know they're Irish."
"When you're in danger of losing a thing it becomes precious and when it's around us, it's in tedious abundance and we take it for granted as if we're going to live forever, which we're not."
"Death's a debt; his mandamus binds all alike- no bail, no demurrer."
"The same principles which at first view lead to skepticism, pursued to a certain point, bring men back to common sense."
"Success does not judge one man for being worthy above another. Success doesn't choose you because of your family name or existing wealth."
"First of all, the most important, that is to learn everything good that has survived from other times, and carefully to watch the bad - and throw it out."
"Pity those who nature abuses; never those who abuse nature."
"A fluent tongue is the only thing a mother don't like her daughter to resemble her in."
"I just have to proceed as usual. No matter what happens, nothing helps with the writing of the next book."
"Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace."
"The only way you can continue to make artistic films is to make an occasional one of those. They kind of keep your marketability going to the extent that people will employ you."
"So long as I confine my thoughts to my own ideas divested of words, I do not see how I can be easily mistaken."
"Because hypocrisy stinks in the nostrils one is likely to rate it as a more powerful agent for destruction than it is."
"A great source of calamity lies in regret and anticipation; therefore a person is wise who thinks of the present alone, regardless of the past or future."
"Lest when I am gone you may be at a loss for an epitaph for me, let me give you one - He Fed Fevers."
"Every word is like an unnecessary stain on silence and nothingness."
"Having played an angel for so long, you can imagine that I've been asked to endorse any number of causes over the years. Obviously I have to limit my participation with any charity, so I decided to really concentrate on my love of children."
"I do not share the wish to see my language dead and decently buried."
"You are a wonderful creation. You know more than you think you know, just as you know less than you want to know."
"Indeed, the probabilities are that the more insincere the man is, the more purely intellectual will the idea be, as in that case it will not be coloured by either his wants, his desires, or his prejudices."
"Art is one thing that can go on mattering once it has stopped hurting."
"I was ever of the opinion, that the honest man who married and brought up a large family, did more service than he who continued single, and only talked of population."
"I can't go on, I'll go on."
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