"For I did not want him to see,……" — Sebastian Barry
"For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets are my fortune and my sanity."
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Sebastian Barry
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24 Quotes by Sebastian Barry
Sebastian Barry has 24 quotes on this site.
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The world begins anew with every birth, my father used to say. He forgot to say, with every death it…
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A beard on a man is only a way of hiding something, his face of course, but also the inner…
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The human animal began as a mere wriggling thing in the ancient seas, struggling out onto land with many regrets.…
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He loved telling stories. He had been everywhere in the world. The northwest frontier, the landscape of the Hindu Kush,…
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I haven't really written my plays and books - I've heard them. The stories are there already, singing in your…
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Fred Astaire. Not a handsome man. He said himself he couldn't sing. He was balding his whole life. He danced…
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It is funny, but it strikes me that a person without anecdotes that they nurse while they live, and that…
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I thought if I was going to live a life in this land I was accidentally born on, I must…
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There is seldom a difficulty with religion where there is friendship.
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After all the world is indeed beautiful and if we were any other creature than man we might be continuously…
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That is because at the close of the day the ship we sail in is the soul, not the body.
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It is very difficult to be a hero without an audience, although, in a sense, we are each the hero…
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Rest assured that whatever station of life we are placed, princely or lowly, it contains the lessons and experiences necessary…
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Dublin university contains the cream of Ireland: Rich and thick.
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The extent of your consciousness is limited only by your ability to love and to embrace with your love the…
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Now, an embryo may seem like some scientific or laboratory term, but, in fact, the embryo contains the unique information…
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An error is the more dangerous in proportion to the degree of truth which it contains.
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A house is no home unless it contains food and fire for the mind as well as for the body.…
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Your treasure house is within; it contains all you'll ever need.
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A modest garden contains, for those who know how to look and to wait, more instruction than a library.
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