"I'm a good scholar when it comes to……" — John Millington Synge
"I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen."
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John Millington Synge
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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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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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More Blotting Quotes
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Death is not a blotting-out of existence, a final escape from life; nor is death the door to immortality. He…
— Paramahansa Yogananda
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Looking back across the years, so many pictures flash on the screen of my memory that just as I begin…
— Conrad Veidt
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And is it not true that in like manner a leader of the people who, getting control of a docile…
— Plato
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Love is a universal migraine. A bright stain on the vision, Blotting out reason.
— Robert Graves
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This depravation of our nature is nothing else but the blotting out of God's image in us.
— Heinrich Bullinger
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Become like a sheet of blotting paper and soak it all in. Later on you can figure out what to…
— Haruki Murakami
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It wasn't being an alcoholic - it was going wild. It happened when I got famous. It was like having…
— Julie Walters
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Some minds are made of blotting-paper: you can write nothing on them distinctly. They swallow the ink, and you find…
— Augustus William Hare
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I'm still afflicted with the malady of research. I don't like what I do, and I paint it out, and…
— Pierre-Auguste Renoir
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I always have mini bottles of Unbreakable, the fragrance I did with my husband. I'm Armenian, so I'm oily and…
— Khloe Kardashian
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As a bookish adolescent, I sopped up texts as if I were blotting paper and they were fluid.
— Will Self
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Because this is what happens when you try to run from the past. It just doesn’t catch up, it overtakes…
— Sarah Dessen
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