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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. We live in an age where the artist is forgotten. He is a researcher. I see myself that way.
  • 2. God employs several translators some pieces are translated by age some by sickness some by war some by justice.
  • 3. I believed my story would be helpful to young women my daughter's age who are still in the process of forming themselves as women and in need of encouragement to remain true to themselves.

2 Amazing

  • 1. The attitude is we live and let live. This is actually an amazing change in values in a rather short time and it's an example of freedom from religion.
  • 2. It's amazing how ideas start out isn't it?
  • 3. More and more couples are having this negotiation or discussion but I'm still amazed at the number who aren't and where the cultural norm sort of kicks in and they just assume that mom's got to be the one who stays home not dad.

3 Anger

  • 1. I've always turned my anger inwards towards self-destruction.
  • 2. When someone says that I'm angry it's actually a compliment. I have not always been direct with my anger in my relationships which is part of why I'd write about it in my songs because I had such fear around expressing anger as a woman.
  • 3. I know of no more disagreeable situation than to be left feeling generally angry without anybody in particular to be angry at.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. Mr. Speaker I rise today to recognize the Peace Corps as it reached its 45th anniversary on March 1 2006.
  • 2. Since I wrote to you last we have got our chapel beautifully lighted with gas and have had our anniversary.
  • 3. See the 'On the Road' that came out in 1957 was censored. A lot of the honesty of it the bitter honesty is in the original scroll version that came out in 2007 on the 50-year anniversary. Back then there was so much post-Second World War fear that was imposed on everybody – 'You must live life this way' – and these guys were bored.

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. Architecture is not an inspirational business it's a rational procedure to do sensible and hopefully beautiful things that's all.
  • 3. The architecture of a story can be a little bit different if it's a true story.
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