"The first thing to say about Finnegans Wake is that it is, in an important sense, unreadable."

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Seamus Deane

#Important Quotes #Firsts Quotes #Finnegans Wake Quotes

“Darryl Strawberry has been voted to the Hall of Fame five years in a row.”
“I would like to like to make one thing clear at the very outset and that is, when you speak of a train robbery, this involved no loss of train, merely what I like to call the contents of the train, which were pilfered. We haven't lost a train since 1946, I believe it was - the year of the great snows when we mislaid a small one.”

Source : Peter Cook, William Cook (2013). “Tragically I Was an Only Twin: The Comedy of Peter Cook”, p.53, Random House
“Ideas and thoughts and creativity is more of who I am than football.”
“Just because digital technology makes connecting possible doesn't mean you're actually reaching people.”
“We identify the flag with almost everything we hold dear on earth, peace, security, liberty, our family, our friends, our home. . .But when we look at our flag and behold it emblazoned with all our rights we must remember that it is equally a symbol of our duties. Every glory that we associate with it is the result of duty done.”
“I look at technology a lot because I feel like it's something we've got to stop and question, ya know? Right now it's sort of running ahead unabated and I feel like we've got to look at it and say 'Ok, I've gained all of these conveniences, but what did I lose?' And that to me is all part of the same idea of man-made work. We literally worship the things that we've made with our own hands. That's as old as mankind, that problem.”
“All you 'Twilight' fans, can't thank you really enough for being so supportive. You're real cool people.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“Coming from a smaller place always made things feel more personal, which is really what it's all about.”

Source : Interview with John Hawkes, www.interviewmagazine.com. November 6, 2012.

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