- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
- Big Difference
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- Nov 07, 2020
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
- Hands
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- Nov 07, 2020
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
- Go
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
- Irish
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- Nov 07, 2020
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
- Bible
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.
- Every Day
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- Nov 07, 2020
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
- Everything
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- Nov 07, 2020
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
- Death
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Judge
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- Nov 07, 2020
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
- Hell
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- Nov 07, 2020
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
- Food
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
- May
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- Nov 07, 2020
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
- Loneliness
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
- Man
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- Nov 07, 2020
The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
- Drinker
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a drinker with writing problems.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
- I Wish
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- Nov 07, 2020
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
- Nationality
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- Nov 07, 2020
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
- Myself
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- Nov 07, 2020
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
- Atheist
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am a daylight atheist.
- Enough
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- Nov 07, 2020