All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

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Sean O’Caseywas an Irish dramatist and memoirist. A committed socialist, he was the first Irish playwright of note to write about the Dublin working classes.

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Joyce for all his devotion to his art, terrible in its austerity, was a lad born with a song on one side of him, a dance on the other; two gay guardian angels every human ought to have.

Sean O’Casey

Irish writer (1880-1964)

Wealth often takes away chances from men as well as poverty. There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O’Casey

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The hallway of every man’s life is paced with pictures; pictures gay and pictures gloomy, all useful, for if we be wise, we can learn from them a richer and braver way to live.

Sean O’Casey

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Money does not make you happy but it quiets the nerves.

Sean O’Casey

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It’s my rule never to lose me temper till it would be detrimental to keep it.

Sean O’Casey

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There’s no reason to bring religion into it. I think we ought to have as great a regard for religion as we can, so as to keep it out of as many things as possible.

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No man is so old as to believe he cannot live one more year.

Sean O’Casey

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Every action of our lives touches on some chord that will vibrate in eternity.

Sean O’Casey

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There is none to tell the rich to go on striving, for a rich man makes the law that hallows and hollows his own life.

Sean O’Casey

Irish writer (1880-1964)

I have found life an enjoyable, enchanting, active, and sometime terrifying experience, and I’ve enjoyed it completely. A lament in one ear, maybe, but always a song in the other.

Sean O’Casey

Irish writer (1880-1964)

The worlds a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O’Casey

Irish writer (1880-1964)

All the world’s a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Sean O’Casey

Irish writer (1880-1964)