Jack Butler Yeats quotes
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“If the rose puzzled its mind over the question how it grew, it would not have been the miracle that it is.”
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“The Americans never walk. In winter too cold and in summer too hot.”
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“Personality is born out of pain. It is the fire shut up in the flint.”
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“Always when I see a man fond of praise I always think it is because he is an affectionate man craving for affection”
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“Never trust a sentimentalist. They are all alike, pretenders to virtue, at heart selfish frauds and sensualists.”
-- Jack Butler Yeats
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Source : A. E. Hotchner (2010). “The Good Life According to Hemingway”, p.11, Harper Collins
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“There is a graveyard in my poor heart - dark, heaped-up graves, from which no flowers spring.”
Source : Adah Isaacs Menken (1868). “Infelicia [poems].”, p.72
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Source : "A Match" l. 1 (1866)
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“There's absolutely nothing wrong with Oscar Levant that a miracle can't fix.”
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