"A lot of Irish people perform. They perform in drawing rooms. They sing songs and they play piano."
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"I'm not on the run from anything and I'm not at all clear about what I'm running towards. But as some great writer put it, I want to be certain that when I arrive at death, I'm totally exhausted.“
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