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John Millington Synge

Edmund John Millington Synge (/sɪŋ/; 16 April 1871 – 24 March 1909) was an Irish playwright, poet, prose writer, travel writer and collector of folklore. He was a key figure in the Irish Literary Revival and was one of the co-founders of the Abbey Theatre. He is best known for his play The Playboy of the Western World, which caused riots in Dublin during its opening run at the Abbey Theatre.

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I'm a good scholar when it comes to reading but a blotting kind of writer when you give me a pen.

Blotting, Comeback, Give, Giving, Reading, Writer

As a man has no right to kill one of his children if it is diseased or insane, so a man who has made the gradual and conscious expression of his personality in literature the aim of his life, has no right to suppress himself any carefully considered work which seemed good enough when it was written. Suppression, if it is deserved, will come rapidly enough from the same causes that suppress the unworthy members of a man's family.

Children, Considered, Men, Same, Suppress, Writing

I knew the stars, the flowers, and the birds, The gray and wintry sides of many glens, And did but half remember human words, In converse with the mountains, moors, and fens.

Bird, Flower, Flowers, Mountains, Sides, Stars

In a good play every speech should be as fully flavored as a nut or apple.

Apples, Flavored, Good, Nut, Nuts, Play

What is the price of a thousand horses against a son where there is one son only?

Against, Horse, Horses, Son, Thousand

In the middle classes the gifted son of a family is always the poorest -- usually a writer or artist with no sense for speculation -- and in a family of peasants, where the average comfort is just over penury, the gifted son sinks also, and is soon a tramp on the roadside.

Family, Son, Artist, Peasants, Penury

Before verse can be human again it must learn to be brutal.

Brutal, Human, Humans, Poetry, Verse

There is no language like the Irish for soothing and quieting.

Ireland And The Irish, Language, Soothing, Quieting, Like

They're cheering a young lad, the champion playboy of the Western World.

Champion, Cheer, Cheering, Playboy, World, Young

In this cry of pain the inner consciousness of the people seems to lay itself bare for an instant, and to reveal the mood of beings who feel their isolation in the face of a universe that wars on them with winds and seas.

Face, Instant, Pain, War, Wind, Winds

A week of sweeping fogs has passed over and given me a strange sense of exile and desolation. I walk round the island nearly every day, yet I can see nothing anywhere but a mass of wet rock, a strip of surf, and then a tumult of waves.

Given, Hiking, Island, Islands, Journey, Tumult

Foreign languages are another favourite topic, and as these men are bilingual they have a fair notion of what it means to speak and think in many different idioms.

Bilingual, Mean, Men, Notion, Speak, Thinking

No man at all can be living forever and we must be satisfied.

Death, Forever, Living, Men, Satisfied

All the rare and royal names Wormy sheepskin yet retains

Names, Rare, Retains, Royal, Sheepskin

The general knowledge of time on the island depends, curiously enough, on the direction of the wind.

Enough, General, Islands, Wind

The drama, like the symphony, does not teach or prove anything.

Drama, Like, Symphony, Teach, Writing

A man who is not afraid of the sea will soon be drowned, for he will be going out on a day when he shouldn't.

Drowned, Going Out, Man, Men, Sea

When I was writing The Shadow of the Glen I got more aid than any learning could have given me from a chink in the floor of the old Wicklow house where I was staying, that let me hear what was being said by the servent girls in the kitchen.

Aid, Girl, House, Old, Shadow, Writing

Words, particularly in a play, should have the texture of a crisp, autumn apple.

Autumn, Play, Should Have, Texture