Liam O'Flaherty Professions : Novelist Born : August 28, 1896 Died : September 7, 1984 Browse All Authors Top 4 quotes by 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. Liam O'Flaherty creative artist impossible 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? Liam O'Flaherty storm army energy 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. Liam O'Flaherty rocks hate men When the parish priest rebuked him for his celibacy, saying it would lead him into debaucheryand sin, hesaid that a man who had to be muzzled bya wife as a protection against debauchery was not worthy of the joy of innocence. After that people began to treat him with priestly respect. Liam O'Flaherty wife men people Similar Authors Adam Johnson novelist Ivan Goncharov novelist Binnie Kirshenbaum novelist Bruce Jay Friedman novelist Buchi Emecheta novelist Bryce Courtenay novelist All Authors
