“I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.”
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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