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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.”

John Millington Synge

Draft of a preface in “Notebook 16”; Quoted in The Collected Works of J.M. Synge, vol. 1, Introduction.

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“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.”

John Millington Synge

Draft of a preface in “Notebook 16”; Quoted in The Collected Works of J.M. Synge, vol. 1, Introduction (1962).

Life , Children , Disease , Family

“In a good play every speech should be as fully flavoured as a nut or apple.”

John Millington Synge The Playboy of the Western World

Preface.
The Playboy of the Western World (1907)