Sean O Faolain Quotes

• There is only one admirable form of the imagination: the imagination that is so intense that it creates a new reality, that it makes things happen.

  Sean O Faolain

  Reality, Imagination, Intense

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• If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.

  Sean O Faolain

  Purple, Race, Flames

  1947 The Irish.

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• Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Stories, Whiskey

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• In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.

  Sean O Faolain

  Alternatives, Great Music

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• Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.

  Sean O Faolain

  Optimistic, Gay, Kind

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• I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.

  Sean O Faolain

  Earth, Disguise, Felt

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• The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Stories

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• Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

  Sean O Faolain

  Love, Regret, Love Life

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• The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.

  Sean O Faolain

  Writing, Artist, Ideas

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• Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.

  Sean O Faolain

  Men, Cities, Rats

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