“Is it life?' he answered.'I would rather be without it' he said, ' for there is a queer small utility in it.… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Recently in mixed company...I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“...if you identify life with enjoyment I am told there is better brand of it in the cities than in the country… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“I am your soul and all your souls. When I am gone you are dead. Past humanity is not only implicit in each new… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Here I had a strange idea not unworthy of de Selby. Why was Joe so disturbed at the suggestion that he had a body?… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
“Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.” — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
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… — Flann O'Brien Copy Share Image
