Sean O Faolain
If we turn to early Irish literature, as we naturally may, to see what sort of people the Irish were in the infancy of the race, we find ourselves wandering in delighted bewilderment through a darkness shot with lightning and purple flame.Collection: Purple
In the presence of great music we have no alternative but to live nobly.Collection: Alternatives
Stories, like whiskey, must be allowed to mature in the cask.Collection: Writing
Pessimists are usually kind. The gay, bubbling over, have no time for the pitiful.Collection: Optimistic
I have always felt that everybody on earth goes about in disguise.Collection: Earth
The things I like to find in a story are punch and poetry.Collection: Writing
Love lives in sealed bottles of regret.Collection: Love
The framework of the artist's ideas is clearly only that which he is forever seeking for universality, and must be far wider than the framework of the ideals of the patriot.Collection: Writing
Celibacy bestows on a man the qualified freedom of a besieged city where one sometimes has to eat rats.Collection: Men