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“The Irish have a flair for wringing from death the last drop of emotion and they do not quite understand those who react otherwise.”

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Dervla Murphy

Dervla Murphy, born on November 28, 1931, is an Irish cyclist and travel writer, renowned for her adventurous bicycle journeys across Africa, Asia, and South America. more

“the sudden violent dispossession accompanying a refugee flight is much more than the loss of a permanent home and a traditional occupation, or than the parting from close friends and familiar places. It is also the death of the person one has become in a particular context, and every refugee must be his or her own midwife at the painful process of rebirth.”

Persons Home Process Loss Particular Painful Violent Familiar Traditional Flight Permanent Occupation Refugee Rebirth Parting Close Friends Midwife Familiar Places

Author:Dervla Murphy

“Sunnis consider Shias a pack of unwholesome fanatics and Shias consider Sunnis a gang of lukewarm no-goods - there's nothing like religion for spreading brotherly love!”

Goods Packs Gang Fanatics Lukewarm Brotherly Brotherly Love Shia

Book:Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

Source: Full Tilt: Ireland to India with a Bicycle

“There are two phases of enjoyment in journeying through an unknown country - the eager phase of wondering interest in every detail, and the relaxed phase when one feels no longer an observer of the exotic, but a participator in the rhythm of daily life.”

Feels Two Country Interest Wonder Details Rhythm Enjoyment Daily Life Phases Relaxed Observers Exotic

Author:Dervla Murphy

“I wonder if those experts who tell us that our sexual appetite is the strongest know what real thirst feels like; I can imagine the desire for water driving someone to commit a crime to which sexual desire could never drive them.”

Ifs Knows Feels I Can Real Desire Water Wonder Imagine Crime Driving Commit Experts Strongest Appetite Thirst Sexual Desire

Author:Dervla Murphy

“To me writing was not a career but a necessity. And so it remains, though I am now, technically, a professional writer. The strength of this inborn desire to write has always baffled me. It is understandable that the really gifted should feel an overwhelming urge to use their gift; but a strong urge with only a slight gift seems almost a genetic mistake.”

Feels Should Writing Use Seems Desire Strong Mistake Careers Remains Urges Overwhelming Gifted Baffled Overwhelming Urge

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“... strong bonds are forged in high emotional temperatures.”

Strong Emotional Temperature Forged Strong Bond

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“... I know a number of Western children who would benefit greatly if only someone were primitive enough to inhibit the development of their personalities.”

Ifs Knows Children Enough Numbers Personality Development Benefits Western Primitive

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“This will be triumph! This will be happiness! Yea, that very thing, happiness, which I have been pursuing all my life, and have never yet overtaken.”

Has Beens Triumph

Book:The separation: a tragedy

Source: The separation: a tragedy

“Still on it creeps, Each little moment at another's heels, Till hours, days, years, and ages are made up Of such small parts as these, and men look back Worn and bewilder'd, wondering how it is.”

Men Years Looks Littles Made Stills Moments Age Hours Wonder One Day Heels Worn Creeps Small Parts Little Moments

Book:The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume

Source: The Dramatic and Poetical Works of Joanna Baillie ; Complete in One Volume

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