Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
Flann O'BrienI mean to say, whether a yarn is tall or small I like to hear it well told. I like to meet a man that can take in hand to tell a story and not make a balls of it while he's at it. I like to know where I am, do you know. Everything has a beginning and an end.
Flann O'BrienHell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
Flann O'BrienWho is Fox?", I asked.
"Policeman Fox is the third of us," said the Sergeant, "but we never see him or hear tell of him at because he is always on his beat and never off it and he signs the book in the middle of the night when even a badger is asleep. He is as mad as a hare, he never interrogates the public and he is always taking notes.
...if you identify life with enjoyment I am told there is better brand of it in the cities than in the country parts and there is said to be a very superior brand of it to be had in certain parts of France. Did you ever notice that cats have a lot of it in them when they are quite juveniles?
Flann O'BrienMostra la citazione in tedesco
Mostra la citazione in francese
Mostra la citazione in italiano
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 OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
Flann O'BrienTag: strange
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 of existence. Why have men spent the centuries seeking to overcome the awakened body? Put it to sleep, that is a better way. Let it serve only to turn the sleeping soul over, to change the blood-stream and thus make possible a deeper and more refined sleep.
Flann O'BrienMy father...was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
Flann O'BrienTag: dogs
Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.
Flann O'BrienTag: growling the-dogs-in-the-street ungracious-ladies
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