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Small: Only lies and evil come from letting people off
"Only lies and evil come from letting people off"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: He was a sociologist he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out
"He was a sociologist; he had got into an intellectual muddle early on in life and never managed to get out"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods
"Art is the final cunning of the human soul which would rather do anything than face the gods"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for
Boyle Roche
"Why should we put ourselves out of our way to do anything for posterity? For what has posterity ever done for us?"
Boyle Roche, Politician
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Small: The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump
Boyle Roche
"The best way to avoid danger is to meet it plump"
Boyle Roche, Politician
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Small: Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue
Boyle Roche
"Half the lies our opponents tell about us are untrue"
Boyle Roche, Politician
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Small: We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us
"We absolutely believed in Heaven and Hell, Purgatory, and even Limbo. I mean, they were actually closer to us than Australia or Canada, that they were real places"
John McGahern, Writer
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Small: Everywhere I go Im asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they dont stifle enough
"Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them"
Kate O'Brien, Novelist
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Small: Im really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret
"I'm really honestly terrified about how much I should tell and how much I should still keep secret"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star
"I knew that Jamaica Inn was going to make me a star"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasnt a God directing?
"How could you have had such a wonderful life as me if there wasn't a God directing?"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with app
"After months of want and hunger, we suddenly found ourselves able to have meals fit for the gods, and with appetites the gods might have envied"
Ernest Shackleton, Explorer
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Small: Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scr
"Perhaps when distant people on other planets pick up some wavelength of ours all they hear is a continuous scream"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions
"Literature could be said to be a sort of disciplined technique for arousing certain emotions"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inf
"In almost every marriage there is a selfish and an unselfish partner. A pattern is set up and soon becomes inflexible, of one person always making the demands and one person always giving way"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: Anything that consoles is fake
"Anything that consoles is fake"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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Small: Mr Speaker, I smell a rat I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky but I will nip him in the bud
Boyle Roche
"Mr Speaker, I smell a rat; I see him forming in the air and darkening the sky; but I will nip him in the bud"
Boyle Roche, Politician
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Small: Every pint bottle should contain a quart
Boyle Roche
"Every pint bottle should contain a quart"
Boyle Roche, Politician
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Small: A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, Ive got what I wa
"A completely disrespectful photographer was asked to stop taking photographs, and then said, 'I've got what I want. What are you going to do about it?' How would you feel if somebody walked up and started taking your photograph? I don't think you'd be very happy"
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
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Small: Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners.
"Yes, but also one of the problems for a novelist in Ireland is the fact that there are no formal manners. I mean some people have beautiful manners but there's no kind of agreed form of manners"
John McGahern, Writer
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Small: I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy
"I read all the time. I was reading a book I admire very much by Alice McDermot called Charming Billy"
John McGahern, Writer
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Small: For example, its only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it w
"For example, it's only about 20 years ago the people in that community would have got telephone lines, and it would be only about in the 1950s that electricity came to that part of the world. Television wouldn't have come till 1970"
John McGahern, Writer
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Small: Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in
"Everything that we inherit, the rain, the skies, the speech, and anybody who works in the English language in Ireland knows that there's the dead ghost of Gaelic in the language we use and listen to and that those things will reflect our Irish identity"
John McGahern, Writer
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Small: When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in
"When you try to battle with John Ford, you have to give in"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: I saw myself as Joan of Arc
"I saw myself as Joan of Arc"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously
"I grew up in the theater and danced ballet atrociously"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: I dainty little lass I wasnt. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11
"I dainty little lass I wasn't. I looked twice my age until I turned 10 or 11"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes
"Audiences in London called me the girl with the black cherry eyes"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: Above all else, deep in my soul, Im a tough Irishwoman
"Above all else, deep in my soul, I'm a tough Irishwoman"
Maureen O'Hara, Actress
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Small: It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything
"It was either Voltaire or Charlie Sheen who said, 'We are born alone. We live alone. We die alone. And anything in between that can give us the illusion that we're not, we cling to.'"
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
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Small: I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity.
"I had one of the best days of my life. I spent the afternoon with my two kids and my ex-wife at Serendipity. Then I came to the theater, and you know, I think I did the play the best I've ever done it"
Gabriel Byrne, Actor
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Small: Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest
"Scientific corporations might well become almost independent states and be enabled to undertake their largest experiments without consulting the outside world - a world which would be less and less able to judge what the experiments were about"
John Desmond Bernal, Scientist
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Small: It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not a
"It is pretty clear that they are ineffective in stopping the course of thought at present, but they have not always been so in the past and we cannot be sure that they will not be so in the future"
John Desmond Bernal, Scientist
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Small: Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it look
"Hunger and sex still dominate the primitive mammalian side of human existence, but at the present time it looks as if humanity were within sight of their satisfaction. Permanent plenty, no longer a Utopian dream, awaits the arrival of permanent peace"
John Desmond Bernal, Scientist
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Small: The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland ha
"The part which American friendship played in helping us to win the freedom we enjoy in this part of Ireland has been gratefully recognized and acknowledged by our people"
Eamon de Valera, Statesman
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Small: Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict
"Here, in Cork district, you have in combination all the dangers which war can inflict"
Eamon de Valera, Statesman
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Small: By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme
"By keeping the annuities, we could build up a national industry every years as big as the Shannon Scheme"
Eamon de Valera, Statesman
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Small: If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, Ill stand there naked
"If somebody on this team actually gets to first base, I'll stand there naked"
Kate O'Brien, Novelist
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Small: I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came
"I seemed to vow to myself that some day I would go to the region of ice and snow and go on and on till I came to one of the poles of the earth, the end of the axis upon which this great round ball turns"
Ernest Shackleton, Explorer
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Small: We can only learn to love by loving
"We can only learn to love by loving"
Iris Murdoch, Author
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