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Seán O'Casey (Irish: Seán Ó Cathasaigh [ˈʃaːn̪ˠ oː ˈkahəsˠiː]; born John Casey; 30 March 1880 – 18 September 1964) was 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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All the world's a stage and most of us are desperately unrehearsed.

Desperately, Drama, Funny Life, Inspirational, Stage, Unrehearsed

Jesus, Buddha, Mohammed, great as each may be, their highest comfort given to the sorrowful is a cordial introduction into another's woe. Sorrow's the great community in which all men born of woman are members at one time or another.

Community, Introduction, Jesus, Men, Sorrowful

Here we have bishops, priests, and deacons, a Censorship Board, vigilant librarians, confraternities and sodalities, Duce Maria, Legions of Mary, Knights of this Christian order and Knights of that one, all surrounding the sinner's free will in an embattled circle.

Christian, Knights, Order, Confraternities, Free

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

Chassis, State, States, Study, Whole

Here, the churches seemed to shrink away into eroding corners. They seem to have ceased to be essential parts of American life. They no longer give life. It is the huge buildings of commerce and trade which now align the people to attention. These in their massive manner of steel and stone say, Come unto me all ye who labor, and we will give you work.

Eroding, Giving, Massive, People, Stone, Work

Laughter tends to mock the pompous and the pretentious; all man's boastful gadding about, all his pretty pomps, his hoary customs, his wornout creeds, changing the glitter of them into the dullest hue of lead.

Changing, Glitter, Hue, Laughter, Men, Tends

Disease an never be conquered, can never be quelled by emotion's willful screaming or faith's symbolic prayer. It can only be conquered by the energy of humanity and the cunning in the mind of man. In the patience of a Curie, in the enlightenment of a Faraday, a Rutherford, a Pasteur, a Nightingale, and all other apostles of light and cleanliness, rather than of a woebegone godliness, we shall find final deliverance from plague, pestilence, and famine.

Apostles, Godliness, Light, Men, Prayer, Woebegone

What time has been wasted during man's destiny in the struggle to decide what man's next world will be like! The keener the effort to find out, the less he knew about the present one he lived in.

Decide, Destiny, Lived, Men, Present, Struggle

Is America a land of God where saints abide for ever? Where golden fields spread fair and broad, where flows the crystal river? Certainly not flush with saints, and a good thing, too, for the saints sent buzzing into man's ken now are but poor-mouthed ecclesiastical film stars and clich?-shouting publicity agents. Their little knowledge bringing them nearer to their ignorance, ignorance bringing them nearer to death, but nearness to death no nearer to God.

Flows, Ignorance, Knowledge, Men, River, Stars

Here, with whitened hair, desires failing, strength ebbing out of him, with the sun gone down and with only the serenity and the calm warning of the evening star left to him, he drank to Life, to all it had been, to what it was, to what it would be. Hurrah!

Down, Hair, Hurrah, Life, Serenity, Stars

There's nothing so passionate as a vested interest disguised as an intellectual conviction.

Argument, Intellectual, Interest, Passionate, Vested

The drama's altar isn't on the stage: it is candle-sticked and flowered in the box office. There is the gold, though there be no frankincense or 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 it's roof, now, the commonplace crow caws candidly.

Crow, Drama, Inspiration, Myrrh, Running, Though

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

Doe, Make, Money, Nerves

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

Detrimental, Keep, Temper, Till, Would Be

That's the Irish all over -- they treat a joke as a serious thing and a serious thing as a joke.

Irish, Joke, Serious, Serious Things, Treat, Treats

Nothing seems too high or low for the humorist; he is above honor, above faith, preserving sense in religion and sanity in life.

Faith, Honor, Humor, Low, Sanity

So let us all who pray ask for what most of them need badly, a sense of humor to lighten their way through life, making it merrier for themselves and easier for others.

Ask, Life, Needs, Prayer, Way

To me life is simply an invitation to live.

Invitation, Invitations, Life, Life Is, Live, Simply

Work! labor the asparagus me of life; the one great sacrament of humanity from which all other things flow - security, leisure, joy, art, literature, even divinity itself.

Art, Asparagus, Divinity, Inspirational, Life

A waste land lit by holy candles.

History, Land, Lit, Waste

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