Liam O'Flaherty Quotes

It's impossible for a creative artist to be either a Puritan or a Fascist, because both are a negation of the creative urge. The only things a creative artist can be opposed to are ugliness and injustice.

Ours is the wild tumult of the unchained storm, the tumult of the army on the march, clashing its cymbals, rioting with excess of energy. Need we be ashamed of it?

I was born on a storm-swept rock and hate the soft growth of sun-baked lands where there is no frost in men's bones.