“The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.”
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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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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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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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