Sean O'Casey Quotes
Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
Quotes to Explore
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Love is not the dying moan of a distant violin - it's the triumphant twang of a bedspring.
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Serbia did not want to recognize our country in a peaceful way, so that is why they wanted to destroy us. All our efforts to find a peaceful solution were impossible. In order to save the people, NATO had to intervene.
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One of the questions writers bump up against in their work, whether they know it or not, is about lying. Because fiction is a form of deceit, and one's abilities are measured by how convincingly one can persuade readers that these events really happened.
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The historian is a prophet looking backward.
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My professional dreams were coming true while I was living a personal nightmare.
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With a film, you can get into it and love it. With music, you can listen to over and over again, but with music videos, they're like this short little stab.
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French people are never happy with what they have. They're always complaining. They're happy when they're complaining.
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Science does not limit itself merely to what is currently verifiable. But it is interested in questions that are potentially verifiable (or, rather, falsifiable).
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When you're editing, you're putting it together in a way that makes sense metaphysically. You're not inventing it, but you're finding the story that's there. You're making a play that's eventually going to go on stage and present itself to an audience. You want to show what happened, not exactly what you have evidence of happening.
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Is it right to shoot the poor prostitute or a woman who is unfaithful to her husband, or a man who loves another man?
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I am extremely privileged to serve Rhode Island in the United States Senate, and that is my only goal and aspiration.
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I voted for Barack because he was black. 'Cuz that's why other folks vote for other people - because they look like them... That's American politics, pure and simple.
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I have been known as a crank, faddist, madman. Evidently the reputation is well deserved. For wherever I go, I draw to myself cranks, faddists, and madmen.
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When you're screwing up and nobody says anything to you anymore, that means they've given up on you.'
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The one that I missed.
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Western media only intensified the climate of fear and insecurity
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Of all wild beasts preserve me from a tyrant; and of all tame, a flatterer.
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Manus haec inimica tyrannisEnse petit placidam sub libertate quietem.
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Waking among the dead, one wondered if one was still alive. And yet real despair only seized us later. Afterwards. As we emerged from the nightmare and began to search for meaning.
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If you haven’t the strength to impose your own terms upon life, then you must accept the terms it offers you.
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There's nothing a man can stand so much of as praise.
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Whoever said the soul and the body met in the pineal gland was a fool. It's the asshole, stupid.
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As women, we have super powers. We are sisters. We are healers. We are mothers. We are goddess warriors.
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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
