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It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.

~Patrick Kavanagh

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There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.

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Life in cities is not a spring but a river, or rather, a water main. It progresses like a novel, artificially.

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A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.

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A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.

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Undoubtedly, there are a number of well-developed, mainly female, stars helping Miss Taylor to hold the film industry together: Sophia Loren, Anita Ekberg, etc. But such an insistence on cheesecake smells of bankruptcy.

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Malice is only another name for mediocrity.

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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.

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What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.

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In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.

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Biography

Nationality: Irish

Type: Poet

Born: October 21st, 1904

Died: November 30th, 1967

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