Quotes by Sean O'casey - Page 1

We couldn't live without comedy.
Sean O'casey / Dramatist
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A waste land lit by holy candles.
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History
Land
Waste
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The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.
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States
Study
Whole
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To me life is simply an invitation to live.
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Invitations
Life Is
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Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.
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Happy
Money
Doe
Nerves
Does
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The secret to happiness is to find a congenial monotony.
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Happiness
Joy Happiness
Monotony
Secret
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A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other
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Ears
Enchanting
Song
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When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.
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Hope
Dark
Healing
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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.
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Inspirational
Drama
Funny Life
Stage
World
Most
Desperately
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A laugh is the loud echo of a sigh; a sigh the faint echo of a laugh.
Sean O'casey / Dramatist
Echoes
Laughing
Laughter
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It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.
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Detrimental
Temper
Would Be
Lose
Till
Rule
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Politics has slain its thousands, but religion has slain its tens of thousands.
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Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.
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Believe
Curious
Ifs
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There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.
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Argument
Intellectual
Passionate
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That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.
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Serious
Serious Things
Treats
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I ofen looked up at the sky an' assed meself the question - what is the stars, what is the stars?
Sean O'casey / Dramatist
Sky
Stars
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When I stepped from hard manual work to writing, I just stepped from one kind of hard work to another.
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Hard Work
Kind
Writing
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When one has reached 81... one likes to sit back and let the world turn by itself, without trying to push it.
Sean O'casey / Dramatist
Likes
Trying
World
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A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics - it's the only way in which to make them important.
Sean O'casey / Dramatist
Men
Drunk
Important
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There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
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Rich Man
None
Striving
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Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.
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Humor
Honor
Sanity
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If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.
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Fleas
Literature
Way
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Laughter is wine for the soul - laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness - the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.
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Men
Laughter
Wine
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There's no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.
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Atheism
Dignity
No Reason
Ought
Regard
Thinking
Bring
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So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.
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Needs
Prayer
Way
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Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.
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Art
Inspirational
Life
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Politics - I don't know why, but they seem to have a tendency to separate us, to keep us from one another, while nature is always and ever making efforts to bring us together.
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Effort
Greed
Political
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The hallway of every man's life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.
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Wise
Men
Gay
Gloomy
Life Wise Man
Useful
Braver
Life Man Gay
Hallway
Pictures
Richer
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Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.
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Men
Money
Goes On
Law
Poverty
Rich Man
Wealth
Life Men Man
Chances
None
Striving
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I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I've enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.
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Life
Active
Enchanting
Enjoyable
Insightful
Lament
Song
Life Experience Always
Ear
Maybe
Terrifying
Sometime
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Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.
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Dance
Austerity
Devotion
Guardian
Joyce
Lad
Ought
Terrible
Angels
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What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.
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Men
Destiny
Struggle
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The artist's life is to be where life is, active life, found in neither ivory tower nor concrete shelter; he must be out listening to everything, looking at everything, and thinking it all out afterward.
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Artist
Book
Thinking
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Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.
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Men
Hue
Laughter
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You cannot put a rope around the neck of an idea: you can not put an idea up against a barracks-square wall and riddle it with bullets: you cannot confine it in the strongest prison cell that your slaves could ever build.
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Cells
Ideas
Wall
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The military mind is indeed a menace. Old-fashioned futurity that sees only men fighting and dying in smoke and fire; hears nothing more civilized than a cannonade; scents nothing but the stink of battle-wounds and blood.
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Army
Fighting
Military
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Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.
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Jesus
Men
Community
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Oh Lord, give us a sense of humor with courage to manifest it forth, so that we may laugh to shame the pomps, the vanities, the sense of self-importance of the Big Fellows that the world sometimes sends among us, and who try to take our peace away.
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Humor
Self
Vanity
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Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!
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Hair
Serenity
Stars
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Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.
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Christian
Knights
Order
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If church prelates, past or present, had even an inkling of physiology they'd realize that what they term this inner ugliness creates and nourishes the hearing ear, the seeing eye, the active mind, and energetic body of man and woman, in the same way that dirt and dung at the roots give the plant its delicate leaves and the full-blown rose.
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Men
Eye
Past
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Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.
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Work
Giving
People
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The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.
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Running
Drama
Inspiration
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The wide wonder of Broadway is disconsolate in the daytime; but gaudily glorious at night, with a milling crowd filling sidewalk and roadway, silent, going up, going down, between upstanding banks of brilliant lights, each building braided and embossed with glowing, many-coloured bulbs of man-rayed luminance. A glowing valley of the shadow of life. The strolling crowd went slowly by through the kinematically divine thoroughfare of New York.
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New York
Men
Night
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Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.
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Men
Light
Prayer
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Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.
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Men
Ignorance
Stars
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