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Flann O'Brien quotes: Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.

Flann O'Brien quotes: It is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.

It is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.

Flann O'Brien quotes: still loved but deprived of grace

still loved but deprived of grace

Flann O'Brien quotes: Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

Put a thief among honest men and they will eventually relieve him of his watch.

Flann O'Brien quotes: But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head?

But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head?

Flann O'Brien quotes: Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.

Anything you do is a lie and nothing that happens to you is true.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.

Flann O'Brien quotes: A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

A woman doesn't care if she hasn't a stomach, provided she looks as if she hasn't.

Flann O'Brien quotes: A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old

A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.

Flann O'Brien quotes: My father ... was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

My father ... was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Recently in mixed company ... I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was the greatest living swine.

Recently in mixed company ... I ventured to make the claim ( not without some show of humility and modesty ) that I was the greatest living swine.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.

Flann O'Brien quotes: The first beginnings of wisdom ... is to ask questions but never to answer any.

The first beginnings of wisdom ... is to ask questions but never to answer any.

Flann O'Brien quotes: We should not sleep to recover the energy expended when awake but rather wake occasionally to defecate the unwanted energy that sleep engenders.

We should not sleep to recover the energy expended when awake but rather wake occasionally to defecate the unwanted energy that sleep engenders.

Flann O'Brien quotes: When money's tight and is hard to getAnd your horse has also ran,When all you have is a heap of debtA PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

When money's tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.

Flann O'Brien quotes: What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.

Flann O'Brien quotes: And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Is it about a bicycle?

Is it about a bicycle?

Flann O'Brien quotes: Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

Supposing you are a lady so completely dumb that the dogs in the street do not think you are worth growling at.

Flann O'Brien quotes: I am completely half afraid to think.

I am completely half afraid to think.

Flann O'Brien quotes: He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes.

He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Only serfs or ex-serfs find it necessary to draw up a statement of their 'rights'.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.

Flann O'Brien quotes: In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.

In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Another day gone and no jokes.

Another day gone and no jokes.

Flann O'Brien quotes: I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

I was at a wake the other night and every man jack was drunk - even the corpse.

Flann O'Brien quotes: For my sustenance at night,the whole that my hands can gleanfrom the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaksthe herbs and the plenteous fruits ...

For my sustenance at night,
the whole that my hands can glean
from the gloom of the oak-gloomed oaks
the herbs and the plenteous fruits ...

Flann O'Brien quotes: happeinefs, what is it? lady, difterbed in her Bed, your thoughts of it?

happeinefs, what is it? lady, difterbed in her Bed, your thoughts of it?

Flann O'Brien quotes: Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?

Flann O'Brien quotes: I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

Questions are like the knocks of beggarmen, and should not be minded.

Flann O'Brien quotes: You may have come on no bicycle," he said, "but that does not say that you know everything.

You may have come on no bicycle," he said, "but that does not say that you know everything.

Flann O'Brien quotes: It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.

Flann O'Brien quotes: Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.

Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.

Flann O'Brien quotes: I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.

I suppose we all have our recollections of our earlier holidays, all bristling with horror.