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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.
— John Millington Synge
Either that boy is the sanest creature on Earth, he thought, or he is so disturbed that our tests cannot even begin to scratch the surface.
— Eoin Colfer
Stars believe there is no distance between them and me.
— Suzanne Tyrpak
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
— John Millington Synge
It is impossible to be hurt by someone you love contrary to popular belief. Only something or someone you fear can hurt you.
— Frederick Dodson
Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.
— John Millington Synge
It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and worms.
— John Millington Synge
The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
— John Millington Synge
Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her guts a galling give her.
— John Millington Synge
PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND RIDERS TO THE SEA, J. M. Synge. 80pp. 0-486-27562-0 THE
— Mark Twain
Of the things which nourish the imagination, humour is one of the most needful, and it is dangerous to limit or destroy it.
— John Millington Synge
The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.
— John Millington Synge
They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
— John Millington Synge
A translation is no translation, he said, unless it will give you the music of a poem along with the words of it.
— John Millington Synge
Marco [Rubio] has more of an allegiance to Chuck Schumer and to the liberals than he does to conservative policy.
— Ted Cruz
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
— John Millington Synge
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
— John Millington Synge
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No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
— John Millington Synge
You must not deprive the colonies of their right to make laws for themselves. Parliament should only make laws necessary for the empire as a whole.
— Thomas Hutchinson
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— Nora Roberts
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
— John Millington Synge