"We always planned to move back to the Republic but it never happened, I'm not sure why. My dad is one of those immigrants who never leaves the place he came from. He talks about Ireland all the time. If any Irishman wins at any sort of sport, he sees it as a personal achievement."

-- Maggie O'Farrell

#Sports Quotes #Dad Quotes #Moving Quotes

“It wasn't an architect or a designer who invented objects, but an artisan.”
“There's a very passionate pro-chewing movement on the Internet called Chewdiasm. They say that we should be chewing 50 to 100 times per mouthful, which is insane. I tried that. It takes like a day and a half to eat a sandwich. But their basic idea is right. If you chew, you'll eat slower and you will get more nutrients.”
“Allegiance, after all, has to work two ways; and one can grow weary of an allegiance which is not reciprocal.”
“I'm thankful that I have lived long enough to become a legend, and I hope I deserve it.”
“Every so often a disappearance is in order. A vanishing. A checking out. An indeterminate period of unavailability. Each person, each sane person, maintains a refuge, or series of refuges, for this purpose. A place, or places, where they can, figuratively if not literally, suspend their membership in the human race.”
“Religion did not exist for the saving of souls but for the preservation and welfare of society, and in all that was necessary to this end every man had to take his part, or break with the domestic and political community to which he belonged.”

Source : William Robertson Smith (1907). “Religion of the Semites (Ppr)”, p.29, Transaction Publishers
“On some planet, I probably could have been a lawyer. On some planet, I could have been somebody in advertising.”
“Don't forget the earth's about five thousand million years old, at least. Who can afford to live in the past?”

Source : Harold Pinter (2013). “The Homecoming”, p.58, Faber & Faber

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