Top 50 Frank Delaney Quotes
#1. that's the story of how Saint Patrick drove the snakes out of Ireland forever and banished the Devil to England. Some people say that explains why there has always been such trouble between England and Ireland. The Devil stirs it up.
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#2. A thing doesn't have to be true, he said, for a person to get joy out of it. What it has to be is not evil or malicious.
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#3. 'The Great Gatsby,' by F. Scott Fitzgerald, remains the most perfect novel that has ever come out of the United States. Everything in the book moves as it should, in the manner of a piece by Bach or Mozart.
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#4. The point about words is - the better you use them, the stronger is the thought that wears them.
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#5. If you need proof of how the oral relates to the written, consider that many great novelists, including Joyce and Hemingway, never submitted a piece of work without reading it aloud.
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#7. Should; shouldn't; ought; oughtn't - the enemies of contentment.
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#8. To understand and reconnect with our stories, the stories of the ancestors, is to build our identities.
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#9. Any attempt to ease guilt by justification is false. That the crimes of another appease none of one's own offenses. That, if one is being truthful, the greater pain is that of the offender. I know now that I would much rather be a victim of violence than a perpetrator
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#10. I never met a librarian worth his or her salt who didn't perceive my passion for books.
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#11. Find your soul and you'll live. Lose your soul and you'll die.
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#13. We do well to remember dolphins. If a dolphin ails, then others come alongside and nudge him gently through the waters; because a dolphin must keep moving in order to keep breathing. We all have need of our dolphins alongside us from time to time.
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#15. There's always good news wrapped up in bad news.
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#16. It's very healing,' he said, 'to tell yourself your own story as though you were reciting a myth.
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#17. Marriage is the gold standard of all relationships. It's the currency by which everything is valued.
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#18. The difference between a friend and an enemy is friendliness.
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#19. Storytelling, in print or speech, needs vital energy.
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#20. Beneath its broad surface, storytelling should always work hard to say more than it seems to.
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#21. Kitchens are for conversation. They're not just for cooking; they're for conversations.
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#22. I told you that day: a pair of idiots. I thought she was leading you around by the nose
or some other organ.
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#23. What I told you tonight - it isn't my story alone. It belongs to every Irish person living and dead. And every Irish person living and dead belongs to it. And to all the story of Ireland; blood and bones, legends, guns and dreams, Catholics, Protestants, England, horses and poets and lovers.
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#24. Do you know what the difference is between Friendship and Love? Friendship is the photograph, Love is the oil painting.
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#25. Can you lead to dignity a man abused by his employer? Can you give hope for a new life to a woman whose infant has died? Can you guide an oppressed people to freedom and power?
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#27. I'd have to struggle to find a subject in which I can't get some kind of interested pulse started.
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#28. Writers have opinions - that, in part, is why they write. Therefore they have strong likes and dislikes.
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#29. What are you like inside? Don't you have feelings where you love everyone, and at the same time you hate everyone? Or - don't you have times when everything goes the way you want, but nothing feels good or right? That's what I mean," he'd say, "about my black horse and my white horse.
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#30. Getting up, going to bed, preparing food, eating food
we futile creatures must struggle all the time. Nothing that we need comes to us; we must reach for everything.
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#31. The human face does not always reflect the beauty that may repose in the soul.
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#32. I believe the world of the spirit is in general greatly neglected and not at all served by the practice of faith as we know it, because religion isn't individual enough.
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#33. We had so many of those meaningless banter phrases, those icebreakers ... they were meaningless-but without malice of harm, and they helped awkward people get over their embarrassment at being alive.
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#34. A gust of wind snatched at her hat. She jumped from the wall and her skirts blew everywhere. I couldn't avoid glimpsing more than she intended, and I feared that she might have been embarrassed. Instead she laughed and said, "You're seeing my true colors," and I was the one who blushed.
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#35. Start with the difficult and when it gets easy, everything else is easier.
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#36. There are some places you love with your heart, and there are some places that you love with your mind- the places that you love with both are called 'libraries'
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#37. To have come from Ireland no matter how long ago is to be of Ireland in some part forever.
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#38. For a startling period of my life, I reported the Troubles in Ireland for the BBC. I lived in Dublin and was called out to all sorts of incidents that, if taken together, add up to a war - bombings, assassinations, riots, shootings, robberies, jailbreaks, kidnappings, and sieges.
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#39. Stick a lighted candle up your backside to give yourself that inner glow.
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#40. Definition of remorse: a mourning that is out of control and never ends, that can strike out of the bluest of skies, across the softest of snows.
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#41. As an arts journalist in London, working mainly for the BBC, I interviewed hundreds if not thousands of authors. From them I gleaned a great deal of passing instruction in writing and I observed one fascinating detail: no two writers approach their work - physically - in the same way.
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#42. I suppose if you've always been wrapped in wool, you don't know it's wool.
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#43. But can you make someone feel the world all around loves them? Can you make them feel the rain is for cooling them, the wind is for drying them, the sun is for warming them?
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#44. Stories are where you go to look for the truth of your own life.
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#45. Patrick had left behind some writings, and one of his most famous works was something many of us learned in school called "Saint Patrick's Breastplate," a kind of a cross between a hymn and a poem.
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#46. We all belong to an ancient identity. Stories are the rivers that take us there.
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#47. Never underestimate their intelligence, always underestimate their knowledge.
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#48. If you ever want to understand multitasking in prose, James Joyce is your man.
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#49. Pg 12
"The wises men tell us that everything, sooner or later, changes. And all change commences with a specific moment. We say to ourselves, "I wont do this again, I must become different." And we succeed
eventually.
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