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Only Quotes by Flann O'Brien
- Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the…
- The only result my father got for his money was the certainty that his son had laid faultlessly the foundation of a system of heavy…
- Having placed in my mouth sufficient bread for three minutes' chewing, I withdrew my powers of sensual perception and retired into the privacy of my…
- Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man. Notwithstanding…
- 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 PINT…
- When a man sleeps, he is steeped and lost in a limp toneless happiness: awake he is restless, tortured by his body and the illusion…
- When things go wrong and will not come right, Though you do the best you can, When life looks black as the hour of night,…
- What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
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