John Millington Synge Quotes
When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
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The Afghans themselves say that if you put two Afghans in a room, you get three factions.
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Verily He answereth him who prayeth unto Him, and is near unto him who calleth on Him.
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It is the nature of all greatness not to be exact.
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They do not understand Islam, and I think that is one area where perhaps I hope one day I will play a role in actually making people understand what we perceive Islam to be.
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Where love is, there God is also.
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And there is no trade or employment but the young man following it may become a hero.
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There are no opportune times for a penalty, and this is not one of those times.
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I never feel there's anything I can't do.
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I never met a stripe I didn't like.
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They got word that the Japanese planes were coming back, so we sunk her ourselves so the Japanese wouldn't get it. We didn't want the Japanese to get it intact.
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I still find it hard to believe that the whole era of jazz is over.
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The University of South Carolina has always played a role in my life and the intellectual life of South Carolina.
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It's funny because everyone says, 'Oh you're reclusive; you don't do social media,' but it's not about being reclusive. I like direct contact, and I like contact that's purposeful.
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Near the end of my career, I saw things that didn't make too much sense to me when I was a kid.
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I like certain subgenres within science fiction and fantasy, and one of those is urban fantasy, and another is steampunk.
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I write the novels that are possible for me to write, not that ones I think will come across in a certain light.
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Our goal is a title. With LeBron, we are in 'win now' mode.
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When I was writing my dissertation, I wrote about Freud and the process of sublimation, which is when you learn to stop breast-feeding, or stop going to the toilet whenever you want to. It's about learning to repress a desire for instant gratification.
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President Marcos was investing in precious metals long before he entered politics.
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As a teenager growing up in the suburbs of Washington, I ritually watched the Sunday-morning political talk shows with my family. We parsed and argued and jeered at the screen as national figures delivered careful, poll-tested talking points.
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I'm not searching for that magical Daddy, but I would like to find a partner in life, because I feel like finally I know what love is and what love isn't.
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Few men in our history have ever obtained the Presidency by planning to obtain it.
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France is not poetic; she even feels, in fact, a congenital horror of poetry. Among the writers who use verse, those whom she will always prefer are the most prosaic.
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When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.
