"It's a big con job. We have sold the myth of Dublin as a sexy place incredibly well; because it is a dreary little dump most of the time."

-- Roddy Doyle

#Sexy Quotes #Jobs Quotes #Dublin Quotes

“Dreams, ideas, and plans not only are an escape, they give me purpose, a reason to hang on.”

Source : Steven Callahan (2002). “Adrift: Seventy-six Days Lost at Sea”, p.63, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt
“Intellect alone is a dry and rattling thing.”
“Although I was raised with love, I was always lonely.”
“Great is the issue at stake, greater than appears, whether a man is to be good or bad. And what will any one be profited if, under the influence of money or power, he neglect justice and virtue?”
“We cannot grow spiritually if we ignore our humanness, just as we cannot become fully human if we ignore our spirituality.”
“Robert Creeley has forged a signature style in American poetry, an idiosyncratic, highly elliptical, syntactical compression by which the character of his mindâ€™s concentrated and stumbling proposals might be expressed â€¦ Reading his poems, we experience the gnash of arriving through feeling at thought and word.”
“I just get the will to do it. I don’t plan a photograph in advance… I work by impulse. No philosophy. No ideas. Not by the head but by the eyes. Eventually inspiration comes-instinct is the same as inspiration, and eventually it comes.”
“It is the destiny of the theater nearly everywhere and in every period to struggle even when it is flourishing.”

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