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1205 Critic Quotes

Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by posterity because he was the last to discover America.

America Because Christopher Columbus
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Poetry, even when apparently most fantastic, is always a revolt against artifice, a revolt, in a sense, against actuality.

Against Always Apparently Artifice
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No pen, no ink, no table, no room, no time, no quiet, no inclination.

Inclination Ink No Time Pen
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The artist, like the God of the creation, remains within or behind or beyond or above his handiwork, invisible, refined out of existence, indifferent, paring his fingernails.

Above Artist Behind Beyond
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When I die Dublin will be written in my heart.

Die Dublin Heart Will
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A nation is the same people living in the same place.

Living Nation People Place
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Men are governed by lines of intellect - women: by curves of emotion.
Curves Emotion Governed Intellect
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My words in her mind: cold polished stones sinking through a quagmire.
Cold Her Mind Polished
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Shakespeare is the happy hunting ground of all minds that have lost their balance.

Balance Ground Happy Hunting
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Whatever else is unsure in this stinking dunghill of a world a mother's love is not.

Else Love Love Is Mother
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The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works.

Demand Devote He His
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I think a child should be allowed to take his father's or mother's name at will on coming of age. Paternity is a legal fiction.

Age Allowed Child Coming
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Your battles inspired me - not the obvious material battles but those that were fought and won behind your forehead.

Battles Behind Forehead Fought
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The men that is now is only all palaver and what they can get out of you.

Get Men Now Only
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If Ireland is to become a new Ireland she must first become European.

Become European First Ireland
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He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.

Actual Found He His
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Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.

Committed English Ever Explains
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Ireland is the old sow that eats her farrow.
Eats Her Ireland Old
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Nations have their ego, just like individuals.

Ego Individuals Just Like
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I've put in so many enigmas and puzzles that it will keep the professors busy for centuries arguing over what I meant, and that's the only way of insuring one's immortality.

Arguing Busy Centuries Immortality
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I fear those big words which make us so unhappy.
Big Fear Make Those
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It is a symbol of Irish art. The cracked looking-glass of a servant.

Art Cracked Irish Servant
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God spoke to you by so many voices but you would not hear.

God Hear Many Spoke
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In creating, the only hard thing is to begin: a grass blade's no easier to make than an oak.
Begin Blade Creating Easier
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Solitude is as needful to the imagination as society is wholesome for the character.

Character Imagination Society Solitude
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Mishaps are like knives, that either serve us or cut us, as we grasp them by the blade or the handle.

Blade Cut Either Grasp
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Democracy gives every man the right to be his own oppressor.
Democracy Every Every Man Gives
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Let us be of good cheer, however, remembering that the misfortunes hardest to bear are those which never come.

Bear Cheer Come Good
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Death is delightful. Death is dawn, The waking from a weary night Of fevers unto truth and light.

Dawn Death Delightful Light
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Usually when people are sad, they don't do anything. They just cry over their condition. But when they get angry, they bring about a change.

About Angry Anything Bring
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Who's not sat tense before his own heart's curtain.

Before Curtain Heart His
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All the beautiful sentiments in the world weigh less than a single lovely action.
Action Beautiful Less Lovely
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The foolish and the dead alone never change their opinions.
Alone Change Dead Foolish
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The greatest homage we can pay to truth, is to use it.

Greatest Homage Pay Truth
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Books are the bees which carry the quickening pollen from one to another mind.
Another Bees Books Carry
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Not failure, but low aim, is crime.

Aim Crime Failure Low
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Incredulity robs us of many pleasures, and gives us nothing in return.

Gives Many Nothing Pleasures
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It is by presence of mind in untried emergencies that the native metal of man is tested.

Emergencies Man Metal Mind
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One thorn of experience is worth a whole wilderness of warning.

Experience Thorn Warning Whole
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The heart forgets its sorrow and ache.
Aches Forgets Heart Sorrow
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There is nothing so desperately monotonous as the sea, and I no longer wonder at the cruelty of pirates.

Cruelty Desperately Longer Monotonous
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Fate loves the fearless.
Fate Fear Fearless Loves
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Where one person shapes their life by precept and example, there are a thousand who have shaped it by impulse and circumstances.

Circumstances Example Impulse Life
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As life runs on, the road grows strange with faces new - and near the end. The milestones into headstones change, Neath every one a friend.

Change End Every Faces
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Greatly begin. Though thou have time, but for a line, be that sublime. Not failure, but low aim is crime.

Aim Begin Crime Failure
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What a sense of security in an old book which time has criticized for us.
Book Criticized Old Security
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Reputation is only a candle, of wavering and uncertain flame, and easily blown out, but it is the light by which the world looks for and finds merit.

Blown Candle Easily Finds
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Once to every person and nation come the moment to decide. In the conflict of truth with falsehood, for the good or evil side.

Come Conflict Decide Every
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To educate the intelligence is to expand the horizon of its wants and desires.

Desires Educate Expand Horizon
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Fortune is the rod of the weak, and the staff of the brave.

Brave Fortune Rod Staff
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