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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

The light of day showed you the limits of possibility. But walk through the dark, the absolute, total darkness, and the possibilities were limitless. — Michael Grant

One little leak becomes a lake, Says the tiny voice in my earpiece — Thom Yorke

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

A young girl must have her lover in all courses of the sun and moon. — J.M. Synge

PLAYBOY OF THE WESTERN WORLD AND RIDERS TO THE SEA, J. M. Synge. 80pp. 0-486-27562-0 THE — 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 names
Wormy 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