Quotes from Liam O'Flaherty

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.

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.

I must make a plan," he murmured aloud.

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.

He [the informer] was a poor weak human being like themselves, a human soul, weak and helpless in suffering, shivering in the toils of the eternal struggle of the human soul with pain.