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Flann O'Brien
Author profile
born
in Strabane, Ireland
October 05, 1911
died
April 01, 1966
gender
male
genre
influences
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The Third Policeman
— published 1967 — 45 editions |
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At Swim-Two-Birds
— published 1939 — 40 editions |
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The Poor Mouth: A Bad Story About the Hard Life
by Flann O'Brien, Patrick C. Power , Ralph Steadman — published 1941 — 17 editions |
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The Dalkey Archive
— published 1964 — 11 editions |
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The Best of Myles
— published 1979 — 10 editions |
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The Hard Life
— published 1961 — 16 editions |
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The Complete Novels
— 2 editions |
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Further Cuttings From Cruiskeen Lawn
— 3 editions |
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The Various Lives of Keats and Chapman: Including The Brother
— published 1976 — 7 editions |
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At War
— published 1999 — 3 editions |
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“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?"
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
"That is about the size of it," said the Sergeant.
I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
― Flann O'Brien, At Swim-Two-Birds
“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
― Flann O'Brien, The Third Policeman
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