"The reality is that the nationalist community in Northern Ireland were treated almost like animals by the unionist community. They were not treated like human beings. It was like the Nazis treatment of the Jews."

-- Alec Reid

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“I weep at everything. I love things so much - I just never want to dilute that.”
“I wrote my first short story for a competition and won second prize. Another competition came up and I won first prize. The first story was published in a newspaper. The second went out on radio.”

Source : "Gothic Scot". Interview with Robert McCrum, www.theguardian.com. March 17, 2001.
“Ideas are the beginning points of all fortunes.”
“As early as the autumn of 1862, I was made very happy by being sent to school.”

Source : John Sergeant Wise, Paul Dennis Sporer (2005). “End of an Era: The Last Days of Traditional Southern Culture as Seen Through the Eyes of a Young Confederate Soldier”, p.33, Anza Publishing
“The complexities of what we are given in life are vast and beyond comprehension.”
“Task triage is the habit of making a realistic assessment of what degree of perfection is required for a task at the point of accepting it, so one doesn't need to rely on one's habit of procrastinating to lower the bar.”

Source : Interview with Bob Morris, bobmorris.biz. October 4, 2012.
“All night I dreamt of bonfires and burn piles and ghosts of men, and spirits behind those birds of flame. I cannot tell anymore when a door opens or closes, I can only hear the frame saying, Walk through.”

Source : Ada Limón (2010). “Sharks in the Rivers”, p.7, Milkweed Editions
“Tintinnabulation is like this. Here I am alone with silence. I have discovered that it is enough when a single note is beautifully played. This note, or a silent beat, or a moment of silence comfort me.”

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