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Quotes by Irish Authors
"I never resist temptation, because I have found that things that are bad for me do not tempt me."
"Animals are my friends... and I don't eat my friends."
"I was grateful for the opportunity to make a difference. The political violence really started in 1970-1971. The political difficulties start a little bit beyond that."
"Republican patience with how unionism deals with the political institutions, and with key issues like equality and human rights, will be tested because, obviously, there will be a battle a day on these matters. So lets face up to all of this with our eyes wide open."
"Don't hate me forever, Arty,' whispered Holly. 'I couldn't bear that."
"And now we have the formalities over, we'll have the National Anthems."
"Name, no, nothing is namable, tell, no, nothing can be told, what then, I don't know, I shouldn't have begun."
"But beauty, real beauty, ends where an intellectual expression begins. Intellect is in itself a mode of exaggeration, and destroys the harmony of any face."
"Meg and Belch only had eyes for each other. Not in the usual romantic sense."
"The selfless actions of these heroes have removed them from their families, businesses and homeland to fight, so that others may experience the liberty awaiting our troops upon safe return to America."
"Oh, I talk about things; I drive my husband insane. And I can't tell a lie. Everyone knows. I do this smile thing."
"At your weakest, you end up showing more strength; at your lowest, you are suddenly lifted higher than you've ever been. They all border one another, these opposites and show how quickly we can be altered."
"Evolution is a theory with more holes than a Dutch dam of swiss cheese."
"Perhaps misguided moral passion is better than confused indifference."
"Do not do unto others as you would that they should do unto you. Their tastes may not be the same."
"A funeral is like a little game, really. You have to just play along and say the right thing and behave the right way until it's over. Be pleasant but don't smile too much; be sad but don't overdo it or the family will feel worse than they already do. Be hopeful but don't let your optimism be taken as a lack of empathy or an inability to deal with the reality. Because if anybody was to be truly honest there would be a lot of arguments, finger-pointing, tears, snot, and screaming."
"Whenever I hear, 'It can't be done,' I know I'm close to success."
"Fraud, robbery, and murder have characterized the English usurpation of the government of our country. Why, for the last fifty years we have been robbed in the matter of taxes of hundreds of millions."
"I never grew up thinking the goal in life was to be a millionaire. All the way through college, I had a part-time job. I worked hard to get the things that you need at that age."
"I'd live anywhere, - in one room, in the castle ruin right now " if it meant we could all just be together."
"Really, I'm trying to care, Artemis, really. But I thought it was all supposed to be over when the fat lady sings. Well, she's singing, but it doesn't appear to be over."
"Only the brave know how to forgive; it is the most refined and generous pitch of virtue human nature can arrive at."
"We're being lead by an idiot with a crayon."
"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman."
"Of the many forms of false culture, a premature converse with abstractions is perhaps the most likely to prove fatal to the growth of a masculine vigour of intellect."
"She got a sense that their time together was valuable, as though she needed to hold on to every minute as if it were their last. He was too good to be true, every moment spent with him magical, so much so that she presumed this couldn't last forever. None of her good feelings had lasted forever, none of the people who lightened her life managed to stay. Going by her previous luck, from pure fear of not wanting to lose something so special, she was just waiting for the day he would leave. Whoever he was, he was healing her, he was teaching her to smile, teaching her to laugh, and she wondered what she could teach him."
"They have gone. And the tunnel is about to close. So, boys, I am looking for someone to blame."
"*to thor* Zeus had replied that he had pulled fluffballs of lint out of his bellybutton that were bigger than Asgard."
"The sun was already long past the spire when Garrick purchased a mug of coffee from his regular man on the tip of Oxford Street. But his palate had been educated by 21st century coffee, and he judged this mug as bilge water not fit for the Irish."
"Yes, there is no good pretending, it is hard to leave everything."
"No matter what dimension you're in, there's a big-headed male trying to take over the world."
"One or two of the trips were a bit scary. Soldiers had me at gun point on one trip, locked me in my van all night and escorted me in and out of buildings when I wanted to wash."
"I grew up in Derry, of course, and it was - Derry was the worst example of Northern Ireland's discrimination."
"We all need salespeople who understand the problem and can deliver a solution that works brilliantly for both sides."
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