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Sean O Faolain quotes

Ocupation: Short story writer

Life: February 22, 1900 - April 20, 1991

Birthday: February 22

Death: April 20

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

Topics: Men, Sometimes, Celibacy

quote there is only one admirable form of the imagination the imagination that is so intense sean o faolain Quotes

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

Topics: Earth, Disguise

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.

source: - 1947 The Irish.

Topics: People, Darkness, Literature, Delighted

Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.

Topics: Love, Regret, Love Life

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

Topics: Writing, Stories, Whiskey

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

Topics: Alternatives, Great Music

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.

Topics: Reality, Imagination, Intense, Make Things Happen

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

Topics: Writing, Stories

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.

Topics: Writing, Artist, Ideas, Universality

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

Topics: Optimistic, Gay, Kind, Pitiful

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