"They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World."

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Source : John Millington Synge, Ann Saddlemyer (1998). “Playboy of the Western World and Other Plays”, p.132, Oxford University Press, USA

John Millington Synge

#Cheer Quotes #Champion Quotes #World Quotes

“When I look at young kids today I just don't believe it, parents take away the Gameboy and they're suicidal. They cannot take the pressure.”
“When I go out into the countryside and see the sun and the green and everything flowering, I say to myself "Yes indeed, all that belongs to me!"”

Source : Cornelia Stabenow, Henri Rousseau (1994). “Henri Rousseau, 1844-1910”, Taschen
“The so-called right to reproduce is not an unlimited right.”
“[Abdellatif LaÃ¢bi] was a poet and worked as a high school teacher; and although he hadn't broken any laws, the Moroccan government was determined to "gag" him - I use the term specifically since one of my favorite sequences of his is entitled "The Poem Beneath The Gag."”
“You never write down to the people - you write the best you can with the hope that someone else will feel the same way.”
“Love is not vain because it is frustrated, but because it is fulfilled. The people we love turn to ashes when we posess them.”
“I had to force myself not to be overly protective because I had lost one child.”
“A womanâ€™s duty: To look the whole world in the face with a go-to-hell look in the eyesâ€¦ to speak and act in defiance of convention.”

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