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There is something wrong with a work of art if it can be understood by a policeman.

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Patrick Kavanagh
Age: 63 †
Born: 1904
Born: October 21
Died: 1967
Died: December 1
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Patrick Joseph Gregory Kavanagh
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We are not alone in our loneliness, others have been here and known griefs we thought our special own.
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God cannot catch us. Unless we stay in the unconscious room. Of our hearts.
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I dabbled in verse and it became my life
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Actors are loved because they are unoriginal. Actors stick to their script. The unoriginal man is loved by the mediocrity because this kind of artistic expression is something to which the merest five-eighth can climb.
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