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A man who takes into consideration the feelings of others even when arranging the manner of his own death shows a nobility of character which compels the admiration of all classes.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Death

Past humanity is not only implicit in each new man born but is contained in him. Humanity is an ever-widening spiral and life is the beam that plays briefly on each succeeding ring. All humanity from its beginning to its end is already present but the beam has not yet played beyond you.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Humanity Mortality Soul

Well-known, alas, is the case of the poor German who was very fond of three and who made each aspect of his life a thing of triads. He went home one evening and drank three cups of tea with three lumps of sugar in each cup, cut his jugular with a razor three times and scrawled with a dying hand on a picture of his wife good-bye, good-bye, good-bye.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Death Last Lines Suicide Three

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

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Dishonesty Honesty Humanity And Society Theives

Characters should be interchangeable as between one book and another. The entire corpus of existing literature should be regarded as a limbo from which discerning authors could draw their characters as required, creating only when they failed to find a suitable existing puppet. The modern novel should be largely a work of reference. Most authors spend their time saying what has been said before – usually said much better. A wealth of references to existing works would acquaint the reader instantaneously with the nature of each character, would obviate tiresome explanations and would effectively preclude mountebanks, upstarts, thimble-riggers and persons of inferior education from an understanding of contemporary literature.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Character Literary Theory

I discovered that everything you do is in response to a request or a suggestion made to you by some other party either inside you or outside. Some of these suggestions are good and praiseworthy and some of them are undoubtedly delightful. But the majority of them are definitely bad and are pretty considerable sins as sins go.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Deed Sin Suggestion

Human existence being an hallucination containing in itself the secondary hallucinations of day and night (the latter an insanitary condition of the atmosphere due to accretions of black air) it ill becomes any man of sense to be concerned at the illusory approach of the supreme hallucination known as death.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Existence

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

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Head Idea Thought

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

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Dogs

Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first.‘If you follow them’, said the Sergeant, ‘you will save your soul and never get a fall on a slippery road.

~ Flann O'brien

Flann O'brien Rules Rules To Live By Wisdom

With these words there came the rending scream of a shattered stirk and an angry troubling of the branches as the poor madman percolated through the sieve of a sharp yew, a wailing black meteor hurtling through green clouds, a human prickles.

~ Flann O'brien

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