“There is a fashion today among many of my contemporaries to treat the events of their past with irony. It is a legitimate method of self-defence. ‘Look how absurd I was when I was young’ forestalls cruel criticism, but it falsifies history…. Those emotions were real when we felt them. Why should we be more ashamed of them than of the indifference of old age? I have tried, however unsuccessfully, to live again the follies and sentimentalities and exaggerations of the distant times, and to feel them, as I felt them then, without irony”
- Graham Greene, A Sort of Life.
“We are the Melody Maker
And we are the dreamers of dreams”
- Arthur O’ Shaughnessy
