Patrick Kavanagh Quotes
The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
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I've stopped reading about my books on the Internet because it's too hurtful.
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We may stumble and fall but shall rise again; it should be enough if we did not run away from the battle.
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Collecting more taxes than is absolutely necessary is legalized robbery.
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That term, 'David and Goliath,' has entered our language as a metaphor for improbable victories by some weak party over someone far stronger.
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Every decision to use military force is an excruciatingly difficult one.
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I started out a die-hard New Yorker but really grew to love working in Los Angeles. Even though I originally wanted to do theater, TV presented more opportunities for me, which led me out west.
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
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Man's nature is not essentially evil. Brute nature has been known to yield to the influence of love. You must never despair of human nature.
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Any acceleration constitutes progress, Miss Glory. Nature had no understanding of the modern rate of work. From a technical standpoint the whole of childhood is pure nonsense. Simply wasted time. An untenable waste of time.
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I am not a dumb animal to be browbeaten, cowed, lashed, coerced or goaded into anything I do not think is right.
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Men are different. When they are in love they may also have other girlfriends.
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Absolutely father knows best, always do what your fathers say, and if you can't find one then just ask me, I am a father and I know best.
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My head's never really quiet. The only time I can get it to turn off is if I watch 'CSI' or 'Law & Order,' where I have to follow the crime. If I can't turn my head off during that, I know I've really got a problem.
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Wise is he who enjoys the show offered by the world.
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The sense of this word among the Greeks affords the noblest definition of it; enthusiasm signifies God in us.
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But however measurable, there is much more life in music than mathematics or logic ever dreamed of.
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I know some people are really comfortable with talking about their feelings and hopes and fears in public, but I'm not, and I don't think it's that extraordinary.
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If there is no criticism, you become lazy. But it should be constructive, and it should be the truth. If it's biased and there's no truth in it, then I don't care about it. If it's true, it helps me grow.
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Why does 'writer' have no gender, but 'actor' has a gender? What is that?
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Men of authority have employed all the destructive agents around them to promote their own personal interests at the sacrifice of every just, honorable, and lawful consideration.
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I don't like to go out in general.
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I was eighteen when I wrote my first book, and I can't remember what it was called. I have no idea where the manuscript is - I lost it when I was twenty-one.
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In the winter of 2012, as my fiftieth birthday approached, I began to write what turned into my autobiography, a look at my own life through the lens of food.
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The position is: the Gaelic language is no longer the native language; it is dead, yet food is being brought to the graveyard.
