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> [I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/i-m-a-good-scholar-when-it-comes-to-reading-but-a-blotting-kind-of/)

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## More by John Millington Synge

> [There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/there-is-no-language-like-the-irish-for-soothing-and-quieting/)

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> [Every article on these islands has an almost personal character, which gives this simple life, where all art is unknown, something of the artistic…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/every-article-on-these-islands-has-an-almost-personal-character-which/)

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> [Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/foreign-languages-are-another-favourite-topic-and-as-these-men-are/)

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> [In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/in-a-good-play-every-speech-should-be-as-fully-flavoured-as-a-nut-or/)

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> [At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good deal bruised, but after…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/at-first-i-threw-my-weight-upon-my-heels-as-one-does-naturally-in-a/)

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> [In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/in-this-cry-of-pain-the-inner-consciousness-of-the-people-seems-to/)

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> [The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/the-general-knowledge-of-time-on-the-island-depends-curiously-enough/)

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> [I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/i-m-a-good-scholar-when-it-comes-to-reading-but-a-blotting-kind-of/)

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> [They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/they-re-cheering-a-young-lad-the-champion-playboy-of-the-western-world/)

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> [A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/a-man-who-is-not-afraid-of-the-sea-will-soon-be-drowned-for-he-will/)

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> [It is the timber of poetry that wears most surely, and there is no timber that has not strong roots among the clay and…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/it-is-the-timber-of-poetry-that-wears-most-surely-and-there-is-no/)

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> [Drink a health to the wonders of the western world, the pirates, preachers, poteen-makers, with the jobbing jockies; parching peelers, and the juries fill…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/drink-a-health-to-the-wonders-of-the-western-world-the-pirates/)

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> [Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/before-verse-can-be-human-again-it-must-learn-to-be-brutal/)

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> [A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog, but when we came…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/a-low-line-of-shore-was-visible-at-first-on-the-right-between-the/)

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> [When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/john-millington-synge/when-i-was-writing-the-shadow-of-the-glen-i-got-more-aid-than-any/)

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