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Shit. What have kids got to be worried about now? If they want trouble, they should go live in Bangladesh.
— Jeffrey Eugenides
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
In the end, everything will be okay. If it's not okay, it's not yet the end. ~Fernando Sabino, translated from Portuguese
— Fernando Sabino
In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
— John Millington Synge
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
Examine our every action through the lens of how we would feel if it were to become front page news.
— John Mackey
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
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— Mark Twain
What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?
— John Millington Synge
All the rare and royal namesWormy sheepskin yet retains — John Millington Synge
No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
— John Millington Synge
Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.
— John Millington Synge
I don't agonize over decisions as much these days. The criteria of what's important to me is clear.
— John Cusack
There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.
— John Millington Synge