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Шон О’Ке́йси — ирландский драматург.

✵ 30. Март 1880 – 18. Сентябрь 1964
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„Жертвы политики исчисляются тысячами, религии — десятками тысяч.“

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“When it was dark, you always carried the sun in your hand for me.”

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Sean O`Casey

Источник: Three More Plays: The Silver Tassie, Purple Dust, Red Roses For Me

“Laughter is wine for the soul – laughter soft, or loud and deep, tinged through with seriousness. Comedy and tragedy step through life together, arm in arm, all along, out along, down along lea. A laugh is a great natural stimulator, a pushful entry into life; and once we can laugh, we can live. It is the hilarious declaration made by man that life is worth living.”

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The Green Crow (New York: George Braziller, 1956) p. 226.

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

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Sean O`Casey

Rose and Crown (New York: Macmillan, 1952) p. 282.

“A man should always be drunk, Minnie, when he talks politics – it's the only way in which to make them important.”

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Sean O`Casey

Davoren in The Shadow of a Gunman, Act 2 (1923)

“Isn't all religions curious? If they weren't you wouldn't get anyone to believe them.”

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Sean O`Casey

Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock, Act 2

“The whole worl's in a state o' chassis.”

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Sean O`Casey

Captain Boyle in Juno and the Paycock (1924), Act 1, and repeated several times later in the play.

“She dhresses herself to keep him with her, but it's no use – afther a month or two, th'wondher of a woman wears off.”

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Sean O`Casey The Plough and the Stars

Mrs. Grogan, Act 1
The Plough and the Stars (1926)

“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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Sean O`Casey The Plough and the Stars

Fluther Good, Act 1
The Plough and the Stars (1926)

“The Drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candlesticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense nor myrrh; and the gospel for the day always The Play will Run for a Year. The Dove of Inspiration, of the desire for inspiration, has flown away from it; and on its roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.”

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Sean O`Casey

Sunset and Evening Star (New York: Macmillan, 1954) p. 322.

“It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.”

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Sean O`Casey The Plough and the Stars

Fluther Good, Act 2
The Plough and the Stars (1926)

“If England has any dignity left in the way of literature, she will forget for ever the pitiful antics of English Literature's performing flea.”

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Sean O`Casey

Letter to The Daily Telegraph, July 8, 1941; published in The Letters of Sean O'Casey: 1910-41 (New York: Macmillan, 1975) p. 890.
Of P. G. Wodehouse's wartime broadcasts from Berlin.

“I wouldn't be everlasting' cockin' me earth hear every little whisper that was floatin' around me! It's my rule never to lose me temper till it would be dethrimental to keep it.”

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Sean O`Casey The Plough and the Stars

Fluther Good, Act 2
The Plough and the Stars (1926)