"Before verse can be human again it must…" — John Millington Synge
"Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal."
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28 Quotes by John Millington Synge
John Millington Synge has 28 quotes on this site.
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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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As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a…
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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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More Brutal Quotes
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I am politically pro-choice, but personally pro-life. I have my faith but refuse to force it on the world at…
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Britons are good, though often brutal, colonists where they come into relations with entirely uncivilized tribes whose past is so…
— Annie Besant
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Technology is making gestures precise and brutal, and with them men.
— Theodor Adorno
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At the time, when you're being dissected and judged it's pretty brutal, but in hindsight it's great and - it…
— Kate Bosworth
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State formation has been a brutal project, with many hideous consequences. But the results exist, and their pernicious aspects should…
— Noam Chomsky
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Sometimes overturning brutal regimes takes time and costs lives. I wish it weren't so. I really, really do.
— Hillary Clinton
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I do not consider divorce an evil by any means. It is just as much a refuge for women married…
— Susan B. Anthony
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Palestinian terrorism has to be rejected and condemned, yes. But it should not be translated defacto into a policy of…
— Zbigniew Brzezinski
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Yes, I am a Jew, and when the ancestors of the right honorable gentleman were brutal savages in an unknown…
— Benjamin Disraeli
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Some recent philosophers seem to have given their moral approval to these deplorable verdicts that affirm that the intelligence of…
— Alfred Binet
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To fight, you must be brutal and ruthless, and the spirit of ruthless brutality will enter into the very fibre…
— Woodrow Wilson
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The main point in our report was to recommend decriminalization...because of the way laws are applied, which have not worked.…
— Kofi Annan
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