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I was Irish; I was a woman. Yet night after night, bent over the table, I wrote in forms explored and sealed by English men hundreds of years before. I saw no contradiction. Eavan Boland

Woman Men Before Saw Hundreds Hundreds Of Years Bent Table Over Wrote Years Irish Contradiction After Forms Explored Sealed English Night

The twentieth century had produced a literature in Ireland that kept a tense distance from the sources of faith - and for good reason. Irish writing had suffered a terrible censorship in the twentieth century. Eavan Boland

In effect, to follow, not to force the public inclination; to give a direction, a form, a technical dress, and a specific sanction, to the general sense of the community, is the true end of legislature. Edmund Burke

Sense Community Follow Dress Give General Direction General Sense True Force Effect End Legislature Form Public Sanction Inclination Technical Specific

Ambition can creep as well as soar. Edmund Burke

Ambition Well Soar Creep

A State without the means of some change is without the means of its conservation. Edmund Burke

Change State Some Without Means Conservation

Mere parsimony is not economy. Expense, and great expense, may be an essential part in true economy. Edmund Burke

Great Part Mere True Economy Essential May Essential Part Expense

Liberty must be limited in order to be possessed. Edmund Burke

Freedom Liberty Possessed Must Limited Order

To tax and to please, no more than to love and to be wise, is not given to men. Edmund Burke

Love Wise Men Please Given More Than Tax To Love

The tyranny of a multitude is a multiplied tyranny. Edmund Burke

Tyranny Multitude

Toleration is good for all, or it is good for none. Edmund Burke

Good None Toleration

Religious persecution may shield itself under the guise of a mistaken and over-zealous piety. Edmund Burke

Guise Religious Piety Mistaken Shield Persecution Itself May

Laws, like houses, lean on one another. Edmund Burke

Legal Laws Like Lean Another Houses

To innovate is not to reform. Edmund Burke

Innovate Reform

The traveller has reached the end of the journey! Edmund Burke

Journey Reached End Traveller

Writing is like carrying a fetus. Edna O'Brien

Writing Carrying Like Fetus

I have some women friends but I prefer men. Don't trust women. There is a built-in competition between women. Edna O'Brien

Trust Women Competition Men Some Between Friends Prefer

Countries are either mothers or fathers, and engender the emotional bristle secretly reserved for either sire. Edna O'Brien

Fathers Secretly Emotional Countries Mothers Either Reserved

Sometimes a noble failure serves the world as faithfully as a distinguished success. Edward Dowden

Success Failure World Sometimes Distinguished Noble Faithfully Serve

Browning's tragedies are tragedies without villains. Edward Dowden

Without Tragedies Villains

If you look at life one way, there is always cause for alarm. Elizabeth Bowen

Life You Cause Way One-Way Look Always Alarm

Never to lie is to have no lock on your door, you are never wholly alone. Elizabeth Bowen

Alone You Lie Lock Never Door Your Wholly

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