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Take deeds
Away.
Play music
please.

You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.

The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.

How when one is able to indulge the luxury of beginning one's life again.
All one thinks
To do
Is end it

I'm sick of people. The less I have to do with them for the rest of my life the better. I don't careif I die.

Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever.

Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.

I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.

Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.

When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.

Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse.

Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.

Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.

I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.

The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame.

... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.

To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.

Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.

I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands.

When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.

If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.

Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty,
climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by.

If there's a sickness in America, it's the lack of materialism.