"There is such solace in the mere sight……" — Sebastian Barry
"There is such solace in the mere sight of water. It clothes us delicately in its blowing salt and scent, gossamer items that medicate the poor soul"
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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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For I did not want him to see, or to question me, for here contains already secrets, and my secrets…
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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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If you're against globalisation, it doesn't achieve much by sort of bombing the head offices of Shell or Nestle. You…
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Some day science may have the existence of mankind in power, and the human race can commit suicide by blowing…
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My dark side, my shadow, my lower companion is now in the back room blowing up balloons for kids' parties.
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A new breeze is blowing, and a world refreshed by freedom seems reborn; for in man's heart, if not in…
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And quit bringing up our forefathers and saying they were civil libertarians. Our founding fathers would have never tolerated any…
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The breeze of grace is always blowing; set your sail to catch that breeze.
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What an indulgence it would be, to just blow off my head, all my mean spirits disappearing with a gun…
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He [Stephen Douglas] is blowing out the moral lights around us, when he contends that whoever wants slaves has a…
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Getting in shape for this role, which is incredibly demanding, vocally, has been a lot of hard work, but I'm…
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Smoking is a shocking thing - blowing smoke out of our mouths into other people's mouths, eyes, and noses, and…
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