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Quote by Seamus Heaney
As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and o

As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note. – Seamus Heaney

Other quotes by Seamus Heaney

The fact of the matter is that the most unexpected and miraculous thing in my life was the arrival in it of poetry itself – as a vocation and an elevation almost. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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The completely solitary self: thats where poetry comes from, and it gets isolated by crisis, and those crises are often very intimate also. – Seamus Heaney

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Poetry
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Even if the hopes you started out with are dashed, hope has to be maintained. – Seamus Heaney

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Hope
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The worst times can be the best if you think with positive energy. – Domenico Dolce

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The simple act of paying positive attention to people has a great deal to do with productivity. – Tom Peters

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positive

Thats my gift. I let that negativity roll off me like water off a ducks back. If its not positive, I didnt hear it. If you can overcome that, fights are easy. – George Foreman

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positive

My parents leaving a third world country to a first world country and building from nothing – thats really inspiring to me and its influenced me in a positive way. – Melanie Fiona

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positive

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My fiction is reviewed by the mainstream press, by science fiction periodicals, romance magazines, small press publications and various other journals, including some usually devoted to archaeological and other science material. – Jean M. Auel

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Science

Slavery is the first step towards civilization. In order to develop it is necessary that things should be much better for some and much worse for others, then those who are better off can develop at the expense of others. – Alexander Herzen

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Slavery

A love of books, of holding a book, turning its pages, looking at its pictures, and living its fascinating stories goes hand-in-hand with a love of learning. – Laura Bush

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Learning

The surest sign that intelligent life exists elsewhere in the universe is that it has never tried to contact us. – Bill Watterson, Calvin and Hobbes

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Humorous