"Is it not possible that the ultimate end is gaiety and music and a dance of joy?"

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Source : James Stephens (2015). “The Crock of Gold”, p.9, Booklassic

James Stephens

#Joy Quotes #Ends Quotes #Gaiety Quotes

“She tips her chin up and looks at me with that Abnegation stubbornness I know so well. She may have left them, but they are whatâ€™s making her strong.”
“There are worse things than being fat, and one of them is worrying about it all the time.”
“No one alive today has a single ancestor in his or her past who died in infancy. We are the champions, my friend!”
“I dream of men who take the next step instead of worrying about the next thousand steps.”
“I didn't expect to win the Oscar. You grow up watching the Oscars on TV and you think it happens to fancy people. It was really surreal”
“Barack Obama is like the old joke about boats. The two best days of owning a boat are the day you buy it and the day you sell it.”
“If I wasn't an actor? Hmm, I'd probably be a serial killer. I'm just so damn likeable, no one would ever suspect me.”
“I don't believe in marriage. I think at worst it's a hostile political act, a way for small-minded men to keep women in the house and out of the way, wrapped up in the guise of tradition and conservative religious nonsense. At best, it's a happy delusion - these two people who truly love each other and have no idea how truly miserable they're about to make each other. But, but, when two people know that, and they decide with eyes wide open to face each other and get married anyway, then I don't think it's conservative or delusional. I think it's radical and courageous and very romantic.”

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