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There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

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Saint Patricks Day,

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John Millington Synge
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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. Men of my age live in a state of continual desperation.
  • 2. Why do people talk of the horrors of old age? It's great. I feel like a fine old car with the parts gradually wearing out but I'm not complaining … Those who find growing old terrible are people who haven't done what they wanted with their lives.
  • 3. You just never know when you're living in a golden age.

2 Amazing

  • 1. If you're writing you're starting in private. It can really be this amazing private freeing experience. Forget that it's for other people – that comes in later.
  • 2. Try as hard as we may for perfection the net result of our labors is an amazing variety of imperfectness. We are surprised at our own versatility in being able to fail in so many different ways.
  • 3. I guess winning an Oscar is the ultimate dream. A lot of amazing actors go their whole career without even being nominated. So that would definitely be a goal to reach. It's a difficult one but I'm aiming for it!

3 Anger

  • 1. The world in general doesn't know what to make of originality it is startled out of its comfortable habits of thought and its first reaction is one of anger.
  • 2. I was shocked at the anger toward me.
  • 3. Anger is a wind which blows out the lamp of the mind.

4 Anniversary

  • 1. You marry somebody you love everything about them. You grow to learn about them. You never learn everything.
  • 2. The secret of a happy marriage is finding the right person. You know they're right if you love to be with them all the time.
  • 3. I've been sober for two-and-a-half years My children are happy. In August my wife and I will celebrate our fifteenth wedding anniversary. My band is back together with a sold-out tour.

5 Architecture

  • 1. Architecture begins where engineering ends.
  • 2. Form follows profit is the aesthetic principle of our times.
  • 3. The way of architecture is the quiet voice that underlies it and has guided it from the beginning.
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