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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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"In vain, without the Bible, we increase penal laws and draw entrenchments around our institutions."
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"The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
"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."
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