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Quote by Cyril Connolly
Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child

Words today are like the shells and rope of seaweed which a child brings home glistening from the beach and which in an hour have lost their luster. – Cyril Connolly

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Today the function of the artist is to bring imagination to science and science to imagination, where they meet, in the myth. – Cyril Connolly

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It is a mistake to expect good work from expatriates for it is not what they do that matters but what they are not doing. – Cyril Connolly

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I am delighted to be back home in Galway, the place I first came to as a 19-year-old in 1960. Its here where my heart is and will forever be. – Michael D. Higgins

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