Archive for the ‘paddyquote’ Category

paddyquote III

Friday, November 2nd, 2007

“You’ll never write a good book until you’ve written a few bad ones.”

Bernard Shaw providing solace to, at least, this struggling writer

paddyquote II

Thursday, October 18th, 2007

“I could not have gone through the awful wretched mess of life without having left a stain on the silence.”

Samuel Beckett on Why He Wrote

paddyquote I

Saturday, September 22nd, 2007

“I showed my appreciation of my native land in the usual Irish way - by getting out of it as soon as I possibly could.”

Bernard Shaw

(of course, nowadays, the phrase ‘out of it’ could have more than one meaning -df)