I suppose we all have our little hiding-hole if the truth was known, but as small as it is, the whole world is in it, and bit by bit grows on us again till the day You find us out.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: truth communion monks



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I was a great believer in hot buttered toast at all hours of the day.

Frank O'Connor


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Even if there were only two men left in the world and both of them saints they wouldn't be happy. One them would be bound to try and improve the other. That is the nature of things.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: men change self-help



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Tom looked more and more like a rabbi. As is the way of men of character in provincial towns, he tended to become a collection of mannerisms, a caricature of himself.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: ireland rabbis priest



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a grin that wasn't natural, and that combined in a strange way affection and arrogance, the arrogance of the idealist who doesn't realize how easily he can be fooled.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: idealism arrogance ireland idealist



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I was always a great believer in buttered toast.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: toaster buttered-toast



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But my dear young lady," he said offering a cigarette, "who ever said I have a poor opinion of women? On the contrary, I have a very high opinion of women, and the more I see of them the more I like them.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: male-female-relationships



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A man and woman in search of something are always blown apart, but it's the same wind that blows them.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: religion catholics-vs-protestants schism



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So Father Ring went off in the lofty mood of a man who has defended a principle at a great sacrifice to himself, but that very night he began to brood and he continued to brood till that sickly looking voluptuary of a ten-shilling note took on all the radiance and charm of a virgin of seventeen.

Frank O'Connor

Tag: girls masculinity moneymaking



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But, Mummy, couldn't God make another wars, but bad people."
"Oh!" I said.
I was disappointed about that. I began to think that God wasn't quite what he was cracked up to be.

Frank O'Connor


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