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Quotes by Irish Authors
"The eye by long use comes to see even in the darkest cavern: and there is no subject so obscure but we may discern some glimpse of truth by long poring on it."
"Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life."
"It's my job, it's what I do, it's what I'm on earth to do and it's who I am."
"The psychology of a complex mind must differ almost as much from that of a simple, mechanized mind as its psychology would from ours; because something that must underlie and perhaps be even greater than sex is involved."
"I'm not one of those James Joyce intellectuals who can stand back and look at the whole edifice... It was a slow process for me to just crawl out of it, like a snake leaving his skin behind."
"One of the things that makes Hamlet unique among Shakespeare's characters is his courage to face up to the darker elements of his personality."
"I love you all, even those I don't particularly like. That's you, Beryl."
"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
"Malice is only another name for mediocrity."
"Every person who has mastered a profession is a skeptic concerning it."
"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
"The heart that has truly loved never forgets But as truly loves on to the close."
"It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster."
"It's interesting, the more successful you become the more people want to give you stuff for nothing."
"As our language wanes and dies, the golden legends of the far-off centuries fade and pass away. No one sees their influence upon culture; no one sees their educational power."
"I have a home in Salt Lake, and I have a home in Malibu, at the beach."
"Probability is expectation founded upon partial knowledge. A perfect acquaintance with all the circumstances affecting the occurrence of an event would change expectation into certainty, and leave nether room nor demand for a theory of probabilities."
"Basically, I have no place in organized politics. By coming to the British Parliament, I've allowed the people to sacrifice me at the top and let go the more effective job I should be doing at the bottom."
"Now listen lads, I'm not happy with our tackling. We're hurting them but they keep getting up."
"I now bid farewell to the country of my birth - of my passions - of my death; a country whose misfortunes have invoked my sympathies - whose factions I sought to quell - whose intelligence I prompted to a lofty aim - whose freedom has been my fatal dream."
"It was a perfect marriage. She didn't want to and he couldn't."
"Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves."
"Political and social events must also be effective, but not in a very obvious fashion. But political confusion and prolonged peace undoubtedly affect creative thought but whether they respectively hinder or help it is not at all certain."
"I think my being such a nomad let me into acting. I was always having to create a new image whenever we moved."
"These are the influences that everybody has. Some individuals might stand out because of one thing or another, but whether one's perception as a child of what was important or not is accurate, I don't know."
"In the hands of a great poet, words have ways of affecting us in ways we don't understand."
"If you asked me for my New Year Resolution, it would be to find out who I am."
"I actually knew I was going to be perfect for Def Leppard, sorry I hate to say that but I knew it."
"Earning the Right is a commitment to be the sales professional that your customer really needs."
"After a goalless first half, the score at half time is 0-0."
"Well, we know that eighteen years after that solemn declaration it was disregarded, and the Irish Parliament, which lasted for five hundred years, was destroyed by the Act of Union. Gentlemen, the Act of Union was carried by force and fraud, by treachery and falsehood."
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