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It is a great thing to do what is necessary before it becomes essential and unavoidable.
— Flann O'Brien
still loved but deprived of grace
— Flann O'Brien
But which of us can hope to probe with questioning finger the dim thoughts that flit in a fool's head?
— Flann O'Brien
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
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
Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.
— Flann O'Brien
My father ... was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.
— Flann O'Brien
Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.
— Flann O'Brien
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
When money's tight and is hard to getAnd 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
What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.
— Flann O'Brien
And you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.
— Flann O'Brien
Is it about a bicycle?
— Flann O'Brien
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
I am completely half afraid to think.
— Flann O'Brien
He is as crazy as bedamned, an incontestable character and a man of ungovernable inexactitudes.
— Flann O'Brien
Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.
— Flann O'Brien
Thoughts which have no chance of succeeding do not take the trouble to come into your head at all.
— Flann O'Brien
In Boston he met a pretty lady, fat and forty, but beautiful with the bloom of cash and collateral.
— Flann O'Brien
Another day gone and no jokes.
— Flann O'Brien
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
Why should anyone steal a watch when he could steal a bicycle?
— Flann O'Brien
I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.
— Flann O'Brien
You may have come on no bicycle," he said, "but that does not say that you know everything.
— Flann O'Brien
It is nearly an insoluble pancake, a conundrum of inscrutable potentialities, a snorter.
— Flann O'Brien
Evil is even, truth is an odd number and death is a full stop.
— Flann O'Brien
