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"Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis."
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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."
"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."
"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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