"As a man has no right to kill……" — John Millington Synge
"As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family."
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John Millington Synge
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28 Quotes by John Millington Synge
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The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.
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A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on…
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A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk…
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Lord, confound this surly sister, blight her brow with blotch and blister, cramp her larynx, lung and liver, in her…
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No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.
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In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.
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It gave me a moment of exquisite satisfaction to find myself moving away from civilisation in this rude canvas canoe…
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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…
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They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.
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A low line of shore was visible at first on the right between the movement of the waves and fog,…
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At first I threw my weight upon my heels, as one does naturally in a boot, and was a good…
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In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist…
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The aim of art is to represent not the outward appearance of things, but their inward significance.
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The aim of the wise is not to secure pleasure, but to avoid pain.
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Every art and every inquiry, and similarly every action and choice, is thought to aim at some good; and for…
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If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in…
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Some writers confuse authenticity, which they ought always to aim at, with originality, which they should never bother about.
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Dress is at all times a frivolous distinction, and excessive solicitude about it often destroys its own aim.
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The aim and final end of all music should be none other than the glory of God and the refreshment…
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A boy carries out suggestions more wholeheartedly when he understands their aim.
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Schools are not intended to moralize a wicked world, but to impart knowledge and develop intelligence, with only two social…
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