[Waiting for Godot] has achieved a theoretical impossibility—a play in which nothing happens, that yet keeps audiences glued to their seats. What's more, since the second act is a subtly different reprise of the first, he has written a play in which nothing happens, twice.
Vivian MercierTags: absurd critic godot irish theater
The sea, the snotgreen sea, the scrotumtightening sea.
James JoyceTags: irish sea ireland lyrical
Only Irish coffee provides in a single glass all four essential food groups: alcohol, caffeine, sugar and fat.
Alex LevineTags: humor irish drinking alcohol food-groups
To be Irish is to know that in the end the world will break your heart.
Daniel Patrick MoynihanTags: irish ireland apocalypse
There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.
Thomas AdcockTags: irish
Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my mind, my eyes and face assuming a vacant and preoccupied expression. I reflected on the subject of my spare-time literary activities. One Beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.
Flann O'Brien[Kurt Cobain] had a lot of German in him. Some Irish. But no Jew. I think that if he had had a little Jew he would have [expletive] stuck it out.
Courtney LoveTags: irish ireland germany jews ethnicity germans judaism
Writing in English is the most ingenious torture ever devised for sins committed in previous lives. The English reading public explains the reason why.
James JoyceNever wrestle with pigs. You both get dirty and the pig likes it.
George Bernard ShawTags: irish pigs pointlessness bernard-shaw
I think being a woman is like being Irish... Everyone says you're important and nice, but you take second place all the time.
Iris MurdochTags: women feminism irish ireland
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