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Young writers should keep out of pubs and remember that the cliche way of the artistic life is a lie.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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#Life Is A
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The second-grade films - where are they? No more are they made, and yet they were by far the best films for holding hands at, and wasn't this always the main purpose of the cinema?
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Always
#Best
#Cinema
#Hands
#Purpose
In the country places of Ireland, writing is held in certain awe: a writer was a dangerous man from whom they instinctively recoiled.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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#Dangerous
#Man
#Places
#Writing
Poetry is not Irish or any other nationality; and when writers such as Messrs. Clarke, Farren and the late F. R. Higgins pursue Irishness as a poetic end, they are merely exploiting incidental local colour.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Colour
#End
#Late
#Poetry
#Pursue
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
#Fool
#Green
#Me
Wine and women do not go with song. Alcohol is the worst enemy of the imagination.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Enemy
#Imagination
#Song
#Women
#Worst
The keynote of simple folk is bad manners, familiarity. They intrude on one's private soul.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Bad Manners
#Bad
#Manners
#Simple
#Soul
In the dear dead days beyond recall, when I was in my prime as a film critic, the industry was booming. Hollywood, to give them their due, always called it the industry, through quite a few imagined it as an art form and went through several hours regularly at tiresome films in the sacred cause of art.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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#Art
#Beyond
#Dead
#Film
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
#Days
#Man
#Mind
#Politicians
#Quality
How strange a thing like that happens to a man. He dabbles in something and does not realise that it is his life.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Happens
#Life
#Man
#Something
#Strange
It might be said that the pose of absolute honesty is the most dishonest one of all.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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#Honesty
#Most
#Pose
#Said
In its truest manifestation, where it gives judgments, poetry is super-luxury. It would be interesting to see what would happen to a High Court judge if he were forced to follow the true poetic formula, doing the job for love, being forced into pubs for relief.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Doing
#Follow
#Love
#Poetry
#True
There is nothing as dead and as damned as an important thing. The things that really matter are casual, insignificant little things.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Dead
#Important
#Little Things
#Nothing
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
#Football
#Life
#Never
#People
#Talk
Malice is only another name for mediocrity.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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#Malice
#Mediocrity
#Name
#Only
Natural life, lived naturally as it is lived in the countryside, has none of that progress which is the base of happiness. Men and women in rural communities can be compared to a spring that rises out of a rock and spreads in irregular ever-widening circles. But the general principle is static.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#Happiness
#Life
#Men
#Progress
#Women
What appears in newspapers is often new but seldom true.
- Patrick Kavanagh
#New
#Newspapers
#Often
#Seldom
#True
I want to reveal in a simple way the usual - and unusual - life of the city; the corporation workman, the busmen, policemen, the civil servants, the theatres, Moore Street and also, what occupies so large a place in Dublin's life, the literary and artistic.
- Patrick Kavanagh
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#Life
#Simple
#Street
#Way
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
#Man
#Men
#Truth
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