Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.
A government that robs Peter to pay Paul can always depend on the support of Paul.
I think the Irish woman was freed from slavery by bingo. They can go out now, dressed up, with their handbags and have a drink and play bingo. And they deserve it.
I'm an Irish Catholic and I have a long iceberg of guilt.
Our greatest glory is not in never falling, but in rising every time we fall.
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Put an Irishman on the spit and you can always get another Irishman to turn him.
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
Ireland is a fruitful mother of genius, but a barren nurse.
There is an Irish way of paying compliments as though they were irresistible truths which makes what would otherwise be an impertinence delightful.
I say "on principle" [regarding 'lesbian writer'] because whenever you get one of your minority labels applied, like "Irish Writer," "Canadian Writer," "Woman Writer," "Lesbian Writer" - any of those categories - you always slightly wince because you're afraid that people will think that means you're only going to write about Canada or Ireland, you know.
The Local Paper here asked that me books be banned........THE HIGHEST PRAISE for an Irish writer.
The mathematics clearly called for a set of underlying elementary objects-at that time we needed three types of them-elementary objects that could be combined three at a time in different ways to make all the heavy particles we knew. ... I needed a name for them and called them quarks, after the taunting cry of the gulls, "Three quarks for Muster mark," from Finnegan's Wake by the Irish writer James Joyce.
When I die, I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin. I wonder would they know it was me?
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