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...source of material for me is the things that people say to each other. Um, so whether it’s something overheard on the bus or something a friend tells me or some small detail within a conversation, within a piece of dialogue that makes you think oh, that’s a story. Or, not even that’s a story actually, it’s more like oh that’s a character, and oh this is the kind...

...source of heavenly benedictions, because he carried his cross with Christ, that is, with patience, resignation and holy joy. St. Patrick, after six months spent in slavery under the same master, was admonished by God in a dream to return to his own country, and informed that a ship was then ready to sail thither. He repaired immediately to the sea-coast, though at a great...

...open to the eyes and feet of the world. Love, and Death, and Memory, keep charge for us in silence of some beloved names. It is the crowning glory of genius, the final miracle and transcendent gift of poetry, that it can add to the number of these and engrave on the very heart of our remembrance fresh names and memories of its own creation." "Lear is the occasion for...