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Quotes by Irish Authors
"I thought I'd begin by reading a poem by Shakespeare, but then I thought, why should I? He never reads any of mine."
"To discover the mode of life or of art whereby my spirit could express itself in unfettered freedom."
"There is no wider gulf in the universe than yawns between those on the hither and thither side of vital experience."
"God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear."
"My life is every moment of my life. It is not a culmination of the past."
"I shook hands with a friendly Arab. I still have my right arm to prove it."
"Fletcher was always going to be your ex-boyfriend, from the moment you met him. He's just finally caught up with where he's supposed to be."
"I like persons better than principles, and I like persons with no principles better than anything else in the world."
"We get on well and it won't be too much trouble spending so much time with him. He has a strange way of sleeping as he likes to kick off all the blankets and just have them up by his chest."
"As time goes on, all schools only get left alive if they have found something special themselves."
"As the scripts come in they are sent to the artists, and the artists are either very busy, or ready to start."
"I'm sorry,' said the shopkeeper. 'I can't understand your ridiculous accent.''My accent?''It is quite silly.''So you can't understand me?''Not a word.''Then how did you understand that?''I didn't.' ''You didn't understand what I just said?''That's right.''You understood that, though.''Not at all.'The American glowered."
"If I had the use of my body, I would throw it out the window."
"The soul ... has a slow and dark birth, more mysterious than the birth of the body. When the soul of a man is born in this country there are nets flung at it to hold it back from flight. You talk to me of nationality, language, religion. I shall try to fly by those nets."
"I am not young enough to know everything."
"I think you can leave the arts, superior or inferior, to the conscience of mankind."
"And yet her name was like a summons to all my foolish blood."
"A well chosen anthology is a complete dispensary of medicine for the more common mental disorders, and may be used as much for prevention as cure."
"All the faults of the age come from Christianity and journalism. Christianity, of course, but why journalism?"
"I think it better that in times like these a poet's mouth be silent, for in truth we have no gift to set a statesman right."
"They comedifferent and the samewith each it is different and the samewith each the absence of love is differentwith each the absence of love is the same."
"Sometimes it's not what you say, Valkyrie, it's just the fact that you're saying it."
"Stately, plump Buck Mulligan came from the stairhead, bearing a bowl of lather on which a mirror and a razor lay crossed."
"They divided the city into three electoral wards, and in one ward there was 70 percent of the people, the Catholic population, and they elected eight representatives to the city council."
"If you were to make little fishes talk, they would talk like whales."
"He would never again tempt innocence. He would be good."
"I once asked a hermit in Italy how he could venture to live alone, in a single cottage, on the top of a mountain, a mile from any habitation? He replied, that Providence was his next-door neighbor."
"The ability to close sales effectively has never been confined to the last few moments of the conversation."
"Which college?''Hmm?''Which college do you go to?'Fletcher nodded. 'Yes.''I'm sorry?''Oh,' Fletcher said, and laughed.Valkyrie's parents looked at Fletcher in near bewilderment. Fletcher looked back at them in total bewilderment. Valkyrie shook her head."
"Genius inspires resentment. A sad fact of life."
"But everyone gets burnt, don't they? Certain things are outside of your control. I suppose the only thing you can learn as a director is to not put yourself into situations where it can get outside of your control. And that's what happened."
"Our flesh shrinks from what it dreads and responds to the stimulus of what it desires by a purely reflex action of the nervous system. Our eyelid closes before we are aware that the fly is about to enter our eye."
"You have a wonderful personality. Develop it. Be yourself. Don't imagine that your perfection lies in accumulating or possessing external things. Your affection is inside of you. If only you could realise that, you would not want to be rich. Ordinary riches can be stolen from a man. Real riches cannot. In the treasury-house of your soul, there are infinitely precious things, that may not be taken from you. And so, try to so shape your life that external things will not harm you."
"Life cannot be written, life can only be lived."
"Acting with creatures that aren't there is kind like acting with an actor who refuses to come out of his trailer. You still have to go on and do the scene."
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