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"If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks."
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"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence."
"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."
"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."
"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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