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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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"Where one man reads the Bible, a hundred read you and me."
"I'd usually read the Bible a lot. Read little short Bible stories. And today, whenever I give speeches, I bring up a few of those Bible stories, because those are inspirations to me."
"The words of the Bible, and the Bible alone, should be heard from the pulpit."
"I know of no book which has been a source of brutality and sadistic conduct, both public and private, that can compare with the Bible."
"Some persons have ventured to say that it is only since Englishmen ceased to believe in the Bible that they began to discover how beautiful it was."
"Continuous persecution of widows and orphans is a crime. Even the Bible says there is a specific place in hell for those who oppress widows."
"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."
"The one book necessary to be understood by a divine, is the Bible; any others are to be read, chiefly, in order to understand that."
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"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
"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."
"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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