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Liam OFlaherty Quotes

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

Liam O'Flaherty
Artist, Creative, Impossible

Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

Liam O'Flaherty
Army, Storm, Energy
Liam O'Flaherty (1996). “The Letters of Liam O'Flaherty”, Irish Amer Book Company

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.

Liam O'Flaherty
Hate, Men, Rocks
Liam O'Flaherty (1980). “The Wave: And Other Stories”

When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect.

Liam O'Flaherty
Men, People, Wife
'The Mermaid'.

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