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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
Sean O'Casey

It was a bold man who ate the first oyster.
Jonathan Swift

Neither Christ nor Buddha nor Socrates wrote a book, for to do so is to exchange life for a logical process.
William Butler Yeats

Everywhere I go I'm asked if I think the university stifles writers. My opinion is that they don't stifle enough of them.
Flannery O'Conner

I only drink on two occasions - When I am thirsty and when I'm not thirsty.
Brendan Behan

Aim at heaven and you will get earth thrown in. Aim at earth and you get neither.
C.S. Lewis

Not a shred of evidence exists in favor of the idea that life is serious.
Brendan Gill

The great Gaels of Ireland are the men that God made mad. For all their wars are merry, and all their songs are sad.
G.K. Chesterton

When anyone asks me about the Irish character, I say look at the trees. Maimed, stark and misshapen, but ferociously tenacious.
Edna O'Brien

A Kerry footballer with an inferiority complex is one who thinks he's just as good as everybody else.
John B. Keane

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