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Of all the subjects we can talk of war seems their favourite, and the conflict between America and Spain is causing a great deal of excitement.

—John Millington Synge

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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.

—Brenda Ueland

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The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical...

—John Millington Synge

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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money costs less.

—Brendan Francis

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The freedom of the sand seemed to give a stronger spirit of revolt, and some of the animals were only caught after a dangerous struggle.

—John Millington Synge

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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came further it was lost sight of, and nothing could be seen...

—John Millington Synge

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The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

—John Millington Synge

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A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.

—John Millington Synge

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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

—John Millington Synge

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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass...

—John Millington Synge

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They’re cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

—John Millington Synge

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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after a few hours I learned the natural walk of man, and...

—John Millington Synge

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What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

—John Millington Synge

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Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic beauty of medieval life.

—John Millington Synge

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Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

—John Millington Synge

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In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a...

—John Millington Synge

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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe of a model that has served primitive races since men first went to sea.

—John Millington Synge

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