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Patrick Kavanagh
Irish
October 21, 1904
Poet
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Women
Imagination
Go
Publicity's a cancer. It eats out a man - till there's nothing but a shell left.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Out
Man
Nothing
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Bad
Soul
Simple
A man is original when he speaks the truth that has always been known to all good men.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Good
Men
Truth
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Really
Things
Thing
Ay - 'The Green Fool' business, the libel action over the head of it - did me a lot of damage. It destroyed the momentum.
Patrick Kavanagh
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Business
Me
Lot
A poet is never one of the people. He is detached, remote, and the life of small-time dances and talk about football would not be for him. He might take part but could not belong.
Patrick Kavanagh
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People
About
Life
The exciting quality about Joyce is that when you read him, you are not told of the large public issues that were agitating the minds of politicians and journalists on those days. Joyce is interested in the mind of a man who has put five shillings on a horse.
Patrick Kavanagh
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