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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Once kick the world, and the world and you will live together at a reasonably good understanding."
"Others indeed may talk, and write, and fight about liberty, and make an outward pretence to it; but the free-thinker alone is truly free."
"The true mystery of the world is the visible, not the invisible."
"90% of the divorces are initiated by women. That is really odd. Why? What's going on? What's the great discontent at the heart of it?"
"At moments when life is at its worst there are two things you can do: 1.) break down,lose hope and refuse to go on while lying face down on the ground banging your fists and kicking your legs, or 2.) laugh. Bobby and I did the latter."
"I would like to break out of this dark, brooding image, cause I'm actually not like that at all."
"People ask me to smile for the camera, but somehow it always comes out gloomy."
"I was limply poking about in the garbage saying probably, for at that age I must still have been capable of general ideas, This is life."
"And then, I suppose, there's also a cinematic reality on top of that. Because it was extremely difficult to keep tabs on, it was quite confusing acting that."
"Circumstances give in reality to every political principle, its distinguishing colour, and discriminating effect. The circumstances are what render every civil and political scheme beneficial or noxious to mankind."
"The good parts are the people who don't make do. They're the interesting people. Lear doesn't make do."
"Holly clambered after him, struggling up the human-size steps. 'Wait! Just wait,' she called, overtaking Artemis and looking him in the eye from one step up. 'I know you, Artemis. You like to play your genius card close to your chest until the big reveal. And that's worked out for us so far. But this time you need to let me in. I can help. So, tell me the truth, do you have a plan?'Artemis met his friend's gaze and lied to her face. 'No,' he said. 'No plan."
"What is the use of discussing a man's abstract right to food or medicine? The question is upon the method of procuring and administering them. In that deliberation I shall always advise to call in the aid of the farmer and the physician rather than the professor of metaphysics."
"People tell stories and it's up to those who listen whether to believe or not.""Shouldn't the storyteller believe it.""The storyteller should tell it."
"Basically, I'm a really bad interviewer. I love meeting celebrities, but then I get a bit bored. Once you meet them you thing, 'really, what an ordinary person'."
"If you don't get everything you want, think of the things you don't get that you don't want."
"There are certain kinds of silence that make you walk on air."
"Truth is, something that I thought was perfect was taken away from me, and I never wanted perfect again. I wanted middle of the road, stuff I didn't care about so that I couldn't lose anything I really loved ever again."
"To expect the unexpected shows a thoroughly modern intellect."
"Giving evidence against one's employers was the first step to unemployment."
"Have you ever heard of the theory of relativity?'Artemis blinked. 'Is this a joke? I have traveled through time, Doctor. I think I know a little something about relativity."
"The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live."
"The chief prerequisite for a escort is to have a flexible conscience and an inflexible politeness."
"He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible."
"The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection."
"Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone."
"Journalism classes teach us that one must extract oneself from the story in order to report without bias, but often we need to be in the story in order to understand, to connect, to help the audience identify or else it has no heart; it could be a robot telling the story, for all anyone cares."
"The thing about a diversion is that it has to be diverting."
"One of the many lessons that one learns in prison is, that things are what they are and will be what they will be."
"Each imagining himself to be the first last and only alone, whereas he is neither first last nor last nor only not alone in a series originating in and repeated to infinity."
"Your determination, selflessness and courage have brought the freedom struggle towards its fulfilment."
"There are two traditions in Northern Ireland. There are two main religious denominations. But there is only one true moral denomination. And it wants peace."
"Politics can be likened to driving at night over unfamiliar hills and mountains. Close attention must be paid to what the beam can reach and the next bend."
"The Irish Government can no longer stand by and see innocent people injured and perhaps worse."
"The British government says that for Sinn Fein to be involved in talks the guns must be left at the door."
"It's very inconvenient because every time I finish, let's say, a chapter of a book, I think I'm going to ring Richard and then realize: Oh, Christ, I've buried him. I buried him last year."
"You will always be fond of me. I represent to you all the sins you never had the courage to commit."
"She began stroking my ankles. I considered kicking her in the cunt."
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