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Ireland sober is Ireland stiff.

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Saint Patricks Day,

Author:

James Joyce
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Category: Saint Patricks Day

Authors

A. A. MilneA. B. YehoshuaA. Bartlett GiamattiA. C. BensonA. E. HousmanA. E. van VogtA. J. JacobsA. J. LangerA. J. LieblingA. J. McLean

Topics Index

1 Age

  • 1. I came of age believing that no matter what happened I would always be able to support myself.
  • 2. Age does not matter if the matter does not age.
  • 3. Old age is an insult. It's like being smacked.

2 Amazing

  • 1. I have three dogs a cat fish. I'm a huge animal lover. They're amazing.
  • 2. It's amazing the clarity that comes with psychotic jealousy.
  • 3. Everything has combined to make my life in New York an amazing experience. I told my manager a few years ago that I wanted to move here and try acting in the theater.

3 Anger

  • 1. Five enemies of peace inhabit with us – avarice ambition envy anger and pride if these were to be banished we should infallibly enjoy perpetual peace.
  • 2. My therapist says I still haven't got in touch with my anger. Maybe one day I'm going to explode. But I'm still really happy. I know it looks like a strange and painful upbringing – all those experiences led me to the paths that I'm on now.
  • 3. Anger is an acid that can do more harm to the vessel in which it is stored than to anything on which it is poured.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. I have for some time urged that a nuclear abolition summit to mark the effective end of the nuclear era be convened in Hiroshima and Nagasaki on the 70th anniversary of the bombings of those cities with the participation of national leaders and representatives of global civil society.
  • 2. Actually the year anniversary of what you just heard my son Grahame and I are going to be in a play together and I'm acting for the first time in front of an audience that doesn't consist of a high school drama class.
  • 3. My mother and stepfather were married 43 years so I have watched a long marriage. I feel like I had a very good role model for that. And you know it's just a number.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Space has always been the spiritual dimension of architecture. It is not the physical statement of the structure so much as what it contains that moves us.
  • 2. A great building must begin with the unmeasurable must go through measurable means when it is being designed and in the end must be unmeasurable.
  • 3. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart. There is a powerful need for symbolism and that means the architecture must have something that appeals to the human heart.
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