Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition ... must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo… - Flann O'Brien
It is clear enough that you are making some distinction in what you said, that there is some nicety of terminology in your words. I can't quite follo…
- Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places. - Flann O'Brien
Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.
A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird. - 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 heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill. - Flann O'Brien
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
Rome wasn't built in A.D. - Flann O'Brien
Rome wasn't built in A.D.
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get… - Flann O'Brien
The gross and net result of it is that people who spend most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get…
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, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONL… - Flann O'Brien
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, A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONL…
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand. - Flann O'Brien
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
I am completely half afraid to think. - Flann O'Brien
I am completely half afraid to think.
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