Quote on Attitude and Mindset by Seamus Heaney
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
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"As writers and readers, as sinners and citizens, our realism and our aesthetic sense make us wary of crediting the positive note."
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"But that citizen's perception was also at one with the truth in recognizing that the very brutality of the means by which the IRA were pursuing change was destructive of the trust upon which new possibilities would have to be based."
"At home in Ireland, there's a habit of avoidance, an ironical attitude towards the authority figure."