Tag: Ireland

Perhaps freedom has no meaning

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That indefinitely extended requirement that one human being makes upon another

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Iris Murdoch

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Home is a place in the mind

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Maeve Brennan

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From now on I shall only wear white,

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Nuala O’Connor

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I do know how to behave – believe me, because I know. I have always known.

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Molly Keane

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Their victims lie strewn all round

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Elizabeth Bowen

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Everyone was shut in upon themselves

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Norah Hoult

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The air was a quicksand swallowing up their voices

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Dorothy Nelson

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“Life had made demands on art, and art had suffered.”

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Janet McNeill

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Nicer is not what I am after

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