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Quotes by Irish Authors
"All I ask is the chance to prove that money can't make me happy."
"I bet Maurice Gibb's heart monitor was singing the tune of Stayin' Alive."
"He who says there is no such thing as an honest man, you may be sure is himself a knave."
"The only way to get rid of temptation is to yield to it... I can resist everything but temptation."
"Democracy is a device that insures we shall be governed no better than we deserve."
"I have not yet lost a feeling of wonder, and of delight, that the delicate motion should reside in all the things around us, revealing itself only to him who looks for it."
"Kinsey's quest was really for us all to be tolerant and accepting of each other."
"You see things; you say, 'Why?' But I dream things that never were; and I say 'Why not?"
"It is a woman's business to get married as soon as possible, and a man'sto keep unmarried as long as he can."
"I want you to start realising how far away you are from being able to listen professionally."
"So open questions to understand. Closed questions to confirm and gain commitment."
"You like every one; that is to say, you are indifferent to every one."
"A friendship that like love is warm; A love like friendship, steady."
"The recognition of the art that informs all pure science need not mean the abandonment for it of all present art, rather it will mean the completion of the transformation of art that has already begun."
"I used to love watching him as a player, so it is a joy to play alongside him. I might take the mickey out of him, but deep down I have so much admiration for him."
"If you were a pretty boy pop singer, it would wreck you, growing older."
"When a thing is funny, search it carefully for a hidden truth."
"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
"To unfold the secret laws and relations of those high faculties of thought by which all beyond the merely perceptive knowledge of the world and of ourselves is attained or matured, is a object which does not stand in need of commendation to a rational mind."
"To the soldier, luck is merely another word for skill."
"I was the class clown so I was used to performing and fooling around in front of my friends."
"The only secrets are the secrets that keep themselves."
"I'm really starting to think everything happens for a reason."
"There was no professional theater in Cork, but still I did a lot of performing."
"Pity and friendship are two passions incompatible with each other."
"Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint."
"Those who plot the destruction of others often perish in the attempt."
"Let there be no inscription upon my tomb; let no man write my epitaph: no man can write my epitaph."
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