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"I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds."
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"I have been made redundant before and it is a terrible blow; redundant is a rotten word because it makes you think you are useless."
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"I consider looseness with words no less of a defect than looseness of the bowels."
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"Maybe the words that I say is just another way to pray."
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"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."
"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."
"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."
"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
"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."
"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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