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> [“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/you-mean-that-because-i-have-no-name-i-cannot-die-and-that-you-cannot-2/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

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## More by Flann O'Brien

> [“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/i-discovered-that-everything-you-do-is-in-response-to-a-request-or-a/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [Rome wasn't built in A.D.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/rome-wasn-t-built-in-a-d/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/moderation-we-find-is-an-extremely-difficult-thing-to-get-in-this/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/strange-enlightenments-are-vouchsafed-to-those-who-seek-the-higher/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [“I am your soul and all your souls. When I am gone you are dead. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/i-am-your-soul-and-all-your-souls-when-i-am-gone-you-are-dead-past/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/do-you-know-what-i-am-going-to-tell-you-he-said-with-his-wry-mouth-a/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/a-wise-old-owl-once-lived-in-a-wood-the-more-he-heard-the-less-he/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/in-boston-he-met-a-pretty-lady-fat-and-forty-but-beautiful-with-the/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [“Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body?…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/here-i-had-a-strange-idea-not-unworthy-of-de-selby-why-was-joe-so/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/your-talk-i-said-is-surely-the-handiwork-of-wisdom-because-not-one/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [“Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.”](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/thoughts-which-have-no-chance-of-succeeding-do-not-take-the-trouble/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [When money's tight and is hard to get And your horse has also ran, When all you have is a heap of debt A…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/when-money-s-tight-and-is-hard-to-get-and-your-horse-has-also-ran/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [still loved but deprived of grace](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/still-loved-but-deprived-of-grace/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/a-woman-doesn-t-care-if-she-hasn-t-a-stomach-provided-she-looks-as-if/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

> [“With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/flann-o-brien/with-these-words-there-came-the-rending-scream-of-a-shattered-stirk/)

[Flann O'Brien](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/flann-o-brien/)

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