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Quotes by Irish Authors
"With a cluther of limbs and organs, all that is needed to live again, to hold out a little time, I'll call that living, I'll say it's me, I'll get standing, I'll stop thinking, I'll be too busy, getting standing, staying standing, stirring about, holding out, getting to tomorrow, tomorrow week, that will be ample, a week will be ample, a week in spring, that puts the jizz in you."
"Love is the difficult realization that something other than oneself is real."
"I feel like the writer observing the grief, but it is difficult to be detached from it."
"On the stage he was natural, simple, affecting, 'Twas only when he was off, he was acting."
"Seeking those elusive individuals is like mining for rare gems. It will take hard work, patience, and a persistent attitude. To find that rich seam of colourful stones, you will have to chip through dirt and rock. You will have to learn how to hold rubble in your hands and see the fortune inside."
"Music and language are a vital element. We, as actors and directors, offer it to people who want to experience it. Sometimes the actual meaning is less important than the words themselves."
"If a theme or idea is too near the surface, the novel becomes simply a tract illustrating an idea."
"She had lost the art of conversation but not, unfortunately, the power of speech."
"I am sorry to have to introduce the subject of Christmas into these articles. It is an indecent subject; a cruel, gluttonous subject; a drunken, disorderly subject; a wasteful, disastrous, subject; a wicked, cadging, lying, filthy, blashphemous, and demoralizing subject. Christmas is forced on a reluctant and disgusted nation by the shopkeepers and the press: on its own merits it would wither and shrivel in the fiery breath of universal hatred; and any one who looked back to it would be turned into a pillar of greasy sausages."
"One can live in the shadow of an idea without grasping it."
"There is no satisfaction in hanging a man who does not object to it."
"I shall always be a flower girl to Professor Higgins, because he always treats me as a flower girl, and always will; but I know I can be a lady to you, because you always treat me as a lady, and always will."
"Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad."
"Do not try to live forever. You will not succeed."
"One could never pay too high a price for any sensation."
"I think the main thing, don't you, is to keep the show on the road."
"Justice is itself the great standing policy of civil society; and any eminent departure from it, under any circumstances, lies under the suspicion of being no policy at all."
"My schooling not only failed to teach me what it professed to be teaching, but prevented me from being educated to an extent which infuriates me when I think of all I might have learned at home by myself."
"You write with ease to show your breeding, but easy writing's curst hard reading."
"James Joyce was a synthesizer, trying to bring in as much as he could. I am an analyzer, trying to leave out as much as I can."
"Humility, that low, sweet root, from which all heavenly virtues shoot."
"The liar's punishment is not in the least that he is not believed, but that he cannot believe anyone else."
"With slouch and swing around the ringWe trod the Fools' Parade!We did not care: we knew we wereThe Devils' Own Brigade:And shaven head and feet of leadMake a merry masquerade."
"I love everything that's old, - old friends, old times, old manners, old books, old wine."
"It is not of the essence of mathematics to be conversant with the ideas of number and quantity."
"A clock struck out the hour of twelve, and the bird in the hedgerow was still singing as we marched out to the roadway, and followed our merry pipers home to town."
"It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it."
"The best lack all conviction, while the worst are full of passionate intensity."
"This man called President Bush has a lot to answer for. I don't know if this man is really taking care of America. This government has been shameful."
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