We do not choose our concerns.

Because we don't wanna assimilate to someone else's (boy) standards of what is or isn't.

Money is not our concern. Our concern is the sea. The sea is not persuaded by bankers’ drafts and stocks of bullion; the sea respects nothing but the grit and willpower of dedicated seamen.

We do not look in great cities for our best morality.

No. We don't really do that. We feel that objectifies women and that's not really what we're about.

As far as we are concerned, we are not the toys of any country, including the United States.

..we didn't have the intention at all of founding a new style.. .What we wanted, was a refusal of the outmoded, overly-cultivated art practices.

We are not self-caused little gods.

Our point of view, not our drawing skills or musical virtuosity or ability to tell a story.

England's difficulty is not Ulster's opportunity. However we are treated, and however others act, let us act rightly. We do not seek to purchase terms by selling our patriotism.

My intentions were not to fascinate the world with my personality.

Our major obligation is not to mistake slogans for solutions.

This is, after all, a book about reading, and the kind of reader I am addressing does not care primarily about being in fashion.

lest problems of money, property or prestige divert us from our primary purpose.