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Olivia Robertson
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“... everybody fancies they have that rare thing, a sense of humour.”
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“Like all silent men, I am an incessant talker. I talk so much in an endless monologue in my own mind, explaining meself to meself, explaining things (in me own mind) to your aunt, answering back customers (in me own mind) and talking to beautiful women about my soul (in me own mind) and addressing huge cheering crowds about my ideas on how the country should be run (in my imagination) that when it comes to loosening me mortal tongue in reel life, sure there's not an ounce of talk left in me.”
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“... I find churches limit me.”
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“The Irish question is this: Do the Irish know the answer to everything? ... And the answer to that is that we know fifteen different answers to every question. All of them right.”
Olivia Robertson, Irish spiritual leader, cofounder of Fellowship of Isis
(1917)
Full name:The Honorable Olivia Melian Robertson.