DUBLINERS

Come Fairies, take me out of this dull world, for I would ride with you upon the wind and dance upon the mountains like a flame!
--William Butler Yeats

That's how it is on this bitch of an earth.
--Samuel Beckett

Everything popular is wrong.
--Oscar Wilde

He found in the world without as actual what was in his world within as possible.
--James Joyce

It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follow you.
--Flann O'Brien