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"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."
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"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."

"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."

"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."

"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."

"You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible."

"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means."
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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."

"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."

"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."

"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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