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Danny Morrison - The official site for Danny Morrison. Feature his weekly articles on life in West Belfast as published in the Andersonstown News and other media. Extracts and other exclusive material from his books are alsp available. Updated weekly.
Malachi O'Doherty - A writer and broadcaster - analysis and comment on politics, religion and culture.
"What is most appealing about young folks, after all, is the changes, not the still photograph of finished character but the movie, the soul in flux." (Thomas Pynchon) Of course, it is very important to be sober when you take an exam. Many worthwile careers in the street-cleansing, fruit-picking and subway-guitar-playing industries have been founded on a lack of u Genius is an African who dreams up snow. -- Vladimir Nabokov "Any existence deprived of freedom is a kind of death." (General Michel Aoun) "Gifts must affect the receiver to the point of shock." (Walter Benjamin) Columnists The male is a domestic animal which, if treated with firmness, can be trained to do most things. -- Jilly Cooper A dollar saved is a quarter earned. -- John Ciardi Giving birth is like taking your lower lip and forcing it over your head. -- Carol Burnett Columnists "Education must have an end in view, for it is not an end in itself." (Sybil Marshall) If there is any one proof of a man's incompetence, it is the stagnant mentality of a worker who, doing some small routine job in a vast undertaking, does not care to look beyond the lever of a machi Blessed are the young for they shall inherit the national debt. -- Herbert Hoover "Hold the fort! I am coming!" (General William Tecumseh Sherman) Question: Ted Kennedy: "Where was George?" Answer: Dry, sober, and at home with his wife Columnists "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) An expert is a person who has made all the mistakes that can be made in a very narrow field. -- Niels Bohr Courage: doing what you're afraid to do. There can be no courage unless you're scared. -- Eddie Rickenbacker Columnists Govern a family as you would cook a small fish - very gently. -- Chinese Proverb "Do not go gentle into that good night. Old age should burn and rave at close of day. Rage, rage against the dying of the light." (Dylan Thomas) Icky icky icky icky fKANG zoop-boing n zowzyin... -- The Knights who so recently said "Nee!", Monty Python, British comedy television show The nourishment is palatable. -- Millard Fillmore, dying words Giving every man a vote has no more made men wise and free than Christianity has made them good. -- H.L. Mencken Columnists Skill without imagination is craftsmanship and gives us many useful objects such as wickerwork picnic baskets. Imagination without skill gives us modern art. -- Tom Stoppard "Experience is the name that everyone gives to their mistakes." (Oscar Wilde) What does not kill me makes me stronger. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Columnists "To educate educators! But the first ones must educate themselves! And for these I write." (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) Seeing much, suffering much, and studying much, are the three pillars of learning. -- Benjamin Disraeli Your life and my life flow into each other as wave flows into wave, and unless there is peace and joy and freedom for you, there can be no real peace or joy or freedom for me. To see reality--not as A beauty is a woman you notice; A charmer is one who notices you. -- Adlai Stevenson It is best to learn as we go, not go as we have learned. -- Leslie Jeanne Sahler Columnists It is better to have a permanent income than to be fascinating. - Oscar Wilde I am ready at any time. Do not keep me waiting. -- John Brown - last words The important thing is not to stop questioning. Curiosity has its own reason for existing. One cannot help but be in awe when he contemplates the mysteries of eternity, of life, of the marvelous str Columnists "I don't believe people die. They just go uptown. To Bloomingdales. They just take longer to get back." (Andy Warhol) "Pleasant words are a honeycomb, Sweet to the soul and healing to the bones." (Bible, Proverbs 16:24) "Kill a man, and you are a murderer. Kill millions of men, and you are a conquerer. Kill everyone, and you are a god." (Jean Rostand) The price of freedom is eternal vigilance. -- Thomas Jefferson Per cubic inch, your current TV set is perhaps the dumbest appliance in your home (and I'm not even talking about the programs). -- Nicholas Negroponte Columnists "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence then is not an act but a habit." (Aristotle) "The White Rabbit put on his spectacles. 'Where shall I begin, please your Majesty?' he asked. 'Begin at the beginning,' the King said gravely, 'and go on till you come to the end: then stop.'" (Lewi In every man's heart there is a secret nerve that answers to the vibrations of beauty. -- Christopher Morley Columnists I think that I shall never see A billboard lovely as a tree. Indeed, unless the billboards fall, I'll never see a tree at all. -- Ogden Nash, Song of the Open Road, 1945 It is because modern education is so seldom inspired by a great hope that it so seldom achieves great results. The wish to preserve the past rather that the hope of creating the future dominates the "The meeting of two personalites is like the contact of two chemical substances. If there is any reaction, both are transformed." (Carl Gustav Jung) "Courage is not the absence of fear, but rather the judgement that something else is more important than fear." (Ambrose Redmoon) I am in total control, but don't tell my wife. Columnists Life is no brief candle to me. It is a sort of splendid torch which I have got a hold of for the moment, and I want to make it burn as brightly as possible before handing it on to future generations Lawyers are... operators of the toll bridge which anyone in search of justice must pass. -- Jane Bryant Quinn "Eternal vigilance is the price of freedom." (Raymonde Uy) Columnists Disclaimer: Even my wife doesn't agree with everything I say, and she loves me dearly. My employers don't love me nearly as much as she does. Draw your own conclusions. It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion. - Albert Einstein "Twelve magicians and two carnies have been shot dead doing the bullet catch. That's cool enough, but every night when we close our show with that trick and the loaded gun gets pointed in my face, it Of course there's a lot of knowledge in universities: the freshmen bring a little in; the seniors don't take much away, so knowledge sort of accumulates... -- Anonymous Courage is the ladder on which all the other virtues mount. -- Clare Boothe Luce Columnists An undefined problem has an infinite number of solutions. -- Robert A. Humphrey "Beauty awakens the soul to act." (Dante Alighieri, 1265-1321) There is nothing nobler or more admirable than when two people who see eye to eye keep house as man and wife, confounding their enemies and delighting their friends. -- Homer, Odyssey, ninth century Columnists Democracy is the recurrent suspicion that more than half of the people are right more than half of the time. -- E. B. White Curiosity killed the cat, but for a while I was a suspect. -- Steven Wright I think, therefore I'm single. -- Female philosopher Once you eliminate the impossible, whatever remains, no matter how improbable, must be the truth. - Sherlock Holmes "As long as people will accept crap, it will be financially profitable to dispense it." (Dick Cavett) Columnists "I'll tell you something: Luxury disgusts me." (Giorgio Armani) Whether you think that you can, or that you can't, you are usually right. -- Henry Ford Love begins with a smile, grows with a kiss, and ends with a teardrop. -- Anonymous Columnists Teaching is not a lost art, but the regard for it is a losttradition. -- Jacques Barzun Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer. -- Mark Twain What's another word for "Thesaurus?" -- Steven Wright "Marriage is a great institution, but I'm not ready for an institution yet." (Mae West) I would venture to guess that Anon, who wrote so many poems without signing them, was often a woman. -- Virginia Woolf Columnists The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and science. -- Albert Einstein An archaeologist is the best husband a woman can have; the older she gets the more interested he is in her. -- Agatha Christie "I always thought a dog-lover was a dog who loved another dog." (James Thurber) Columnists "True friendship is like sound health; the value of it is seldom known until it is lost." (Charles Caleb Colton) "People drag their progeny around with them like a ball and chain, like some terrible deadweight that hinders their every move - and that, as often as not, effectively winds up killing them." (Michel Love is an ideal thing, marriage a real thing; a confusion of the real with the ideal never goes unpunished. -- Johann Wolfgang von Goethe Trust everybody, but cut the cards. -- Finley Peter Dunne A mathematician is a device for turning coffee into theorems. - Paul Erdos Columnists The advice your son rejected is now being given by him to your grandson. "Is man merely a mistake of God's? Or God merely a mistake of man's?" (Friedrich Wilhelm Nietzsche) After finding no qualified candidates for the position of principal, the school board is extremely pleased to announce the appointment of David Steele to the post. -- Philip Streifer, Superintendent Columnists Thought is action in rehearsal. -- Sigmund Freud "Transport of the mails, transport of the human voice, transport of flickering pictures--in this century as in others our highest accomplishments still have the single aim of bringing men together." "All women become like their mothers. That is their tragedy. No man does. That's his." (Oscar Wilde, The Importance of Being Earnest) The secret to creativity is knowing how to hide your sources. -- Albert Einstein The world has achieved brilliance without conscience. Ours is a world of nuclear giants and ethical infants. -- General Omar Bradley Columnists The optimist sees opportunity in every danger; the pessimist sees danger in every opportunity. -- Winston Churchill The only thing you take with you when you're gone is what you leave behind. -- John Allston Behind every great fortune there is a crime. - Honore de Balzac Columnists
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