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Quotes by Irish Authors
"Friendship will not stand the strain of very much good advice for very long."
"Appearance blinds, whereas words reveal."
"You must never actually cheat the customer, even if you can. You must make her happy and satisfied, so she will come back."
"A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample."
"I certainly have been guilty of trying to sweep things under the carpet."
"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."
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy."
"The old believe everything, the middle-aged suspect everything, the young know everything."
"I was never a big guy in pubs. I was never the main kind of aggressor or anything like that, but I found myself in trouble because I always had a mouth that would come back with something, and there was just never anyone who could make me be quiet."
"A part of sexuality may go to research, and a much larger part must lead to aesthetic creation. The art of the future will, because of the very opportunities and materials it will have at its command, need an infinitely stronger formative impulse than it does now."
"If suffering brings wisdom, I would wish to be less wise."
"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
"Some people have a tendency to get knocked down in this business and sulk and whine, and they just create a rod for their back, really. You have to have broad shoulders and get through it."
"I've always stayed pretty fit. I felt I needed to give myself energy by exercising and things like that."
"No man shall have the right to fix the boundary to the march of a Nation."
"That's the strategy that myself and my party have pursued and are pursuing."
"There is nothing politically right that is morally wrong."
"The public is wonderfully tolerant. It forgives everything except genius."
"I would like not only to have a successful band, but I want to have children, a home, and a husband. Two or three. Children, not husbands!!!"
"Our greatest glory consists not in never failing, but in rising every time we fall."
"Success consists of getting up just one more time than you fall."
"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
"Give women the right opportunities and they are capable of everything."
"The Irish Republican Army has kept every commitment made by its leadership."
"My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire."
"Everyone, Republican or otherwise, has their own particular part to play. No part is too great or too small; no one is too old or too young to do something."
"It is a glorious thing to be indifferent to suffering, but only to one's own suffering."
"I enjoy convalescence. It is the part that makes the illness worth while."
"In this world there is always danger for those who are afraid of it."
"A wise person should have money in their head, but not in their heart."
"The studio thought I was crazy to perform all of my own fencing stunts, but I loved it."
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