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“I think everyone is trying to figure out who they are and their own thing.”
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“Education should foster; this education is meant to repress. Education should inspire this education is meant to tame. Education should harden; this education is meant to enervate. The English are too wise a people to attempt to educate the Irish in any worthy sense. As well expect them to arm us”
Source : "The Murder Machine". Book by Patrick Pearse, 1976.
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“You never really feel somebody's suffering. You only feel their death.”
Source : "Fictional character: Harry". "Harry and Tonto", www.imdb.com. 1974.
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“Every man's the same, he wants the sunshine in his name.”
Source : Song: Every Kinda People
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“The triumph of an uncluttered mind.”
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“I love the fact that I'm bad at [things], you know what I'm saying? I'm forever the 35-year-old 5-year-old. I'm forever the 5-year-old of something.”
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“Joe and Jojo and I had lovely day together. I love Joe so much - more and more.”
Source : Dawn Powell (1995). “The Diaries of Dawn Powell, 1931-1965”
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“I love the Russian absurdists - [Nikolai] Gogol,[Daniil] Kharms, and [Vladimir] Bulgakov. Even within the Russian experimentalists, there's a lineage of traditional narrative, conflict, and character development, which I find vital to my storytelling.”