“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
Origine: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939)
Flann O'Brien, pseudonimo di Brian O'Nolan , è stato uno scrittore e giornalista irlandese.
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
Origine: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939)
“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
Origine: The Third Policeman (1967)
“I am completely half afraid to think.”
Origine: The Third Policeman (1967)
“Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.”
Origine: The Best of Myles (1968)
“What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.”
Origine: The Third Policeman
“Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.”
Origine: The Third Policeman (1967)
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The Best of Myles (1968)
“When things go wrong and will not come right”
The Third Policeman (1967)
“My father…was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.”
The Third Policeman (1967)
Origine: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939), P. 9.
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The Various Lives Of Keats And Chapman (2010)
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The Best of Myles (1968)
Origine: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939), P. 22.