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"My sister wanted to be an actress, but she never made it. She does live in a trailer. She got halfway. She's an actress, she just never gets called to the set."
"The typewriting machine, when played with expression, is no more annoying than the piano when played by a sister or near relation."
"When I was about 3, my grandfather used to give me and my sister a nickel to sit out on the front porch with him and sing songs."
"I was taking a nose dive somewhere between eleven and twelve because my sister had died and I was practicing something that siblings do which is follow in their footsteps and die as well."
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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."
"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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