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Irish - Author December 21, 1892 - March 15, 1983

Did St. Francis preach to the birds? Whatever for? If he really liked birds he would have done better to preach to the cats.

Cats Better Birds Done

There is no logical reason why the camel of great art should pass through the needle of mob intelligence.

Art Great Intelligence Reason

Journalism: an ability to meet the challenge of filling the space.

Space Challenge Meet Journalism

I myself have never been able to find out precisely what feminism is: I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat.

Myself Me People Never

I only know that people call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Me People Know Only

It is sometimes very hard to tell the difference between history and the smell of skunk.

History Sometimes Hard Smell

Motherhood is the strangest thing, it can be like being one's own Trojan horse.

Mom Horse Motherhood Own

All men should have a drop of treason in their veins, if nations are not to go soft like so many sleepy pears.

Men Go Like Soft

There is no such thing as conversation. It is an illusion. There are intersecting monologues, that is all.

Illusion Conversation Thing

He is every other inch a gentleman.

Gentleman He Every Other

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The trouble about man is twofold. He cannot learn truths which are too complicated; he forgets truths which are too simple.

Simple Man Trouble Complicated

A copy of the universe is not what is required of art; one of the damned things is ample.

Art Copy Universe Things

Life ought to be a struggle of desire toward adventures whose nobility will fertilize the soul.

Life Struggle Soul Will Desire

It is always one's virtues and not one's vices that precipitate one into disaster.

Always Disaster Virtues Vices

Mr. James Joyce is a great man who is entirely without taste.

Man Great Great Man Without

International relationships are preordained to be clumsy gestures based on imperfect knowledge.

Knowledge Relationships Imperfect

The main difference between men and women is that men are lunatics and women are idiots.

Women Men Difference Men And Women

A strong hatred is the best lamp to bear in our hands as we go over the dark places of life, cutting away the dead things men tell us to revere.

Life Best Men Dark

It is the soul's duty to be loyal to its own desires. It must abandon itself to its master passion.

Passion Soul Own Duty

Just how difficult it is to write biography can be reckoned by anybody who sits down and considers just how many people know the real truth about his or her love affairs.

Love People Truth Down

Great music is in a sense serene; it is certain of the values it asserts.

Music Great Values Serene

Any authentic work of art must start an argument between the artist and his audience.

Work Art Start Artist Argument

People call me a feminist whenever I express sentiments that differentiate me from a doormat or a prostitute.

Me People Call Express

God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide.

God Book Practice Should

Everyone realizes that one can believe little of what people say about each other. But it is not so widely realized that even less can one trust what people say about themselves.

Trust People Believe People Say

Writing has nothing to do with communication between person and person, only with communication between different parts of a person's mind.

Communication Mind Nothing Person

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