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“I'm the one that's got to die when it's time for me to die, so let me live my life the way I want to.”
― Jimi Hendrix, The Jimi Hendrix Experience - Axis: Bold as Love | Guitar TAB Sheet Music Collection | Note-for-Note Transcriptions for Electric Guitar Players | Classic Psychedelic Rock Solos

“The way you wear your hat,
The way you sip your tea,
The mem'ry of all that --
No, no! They can't take that away from me!”
― Ira Gershwin

“Sweden advertised it as the movie so funny that Norwegians weren’t allowed to see it.”
― Eric Idle, Always Look on the Bright Side of Life: A Sortabiography

“You cannot make a man by standing a sheep on its hind-legs. But by standing a flock of sheep in that position you can make a crowd of men.”
― Max Beerbohm

“It’s the way with the old, my lad, for I have one foot in the grave and the other on its edge.”
― Maurice O'Sullivan, Twenty Years A-Growing

“the proverb cannot be gainsaid: If you wish praise die, if you wish blame marry.” “Faith, daddo, I never heard that till now.”
― Maurice O'Sullivan, Twenty Years A-Growing

“There’s a man at the gate, watching me. ‘Have ya fallen and hurt yourself, or are ye just afraid of the cow?”
― Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

“I swallowed a sandwich and a bottle of water.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“heart. “You’re not lost. I found you.”
― Deborah Harkness, A Discovery of Witches

“Choosing a lover is a lot like choosing a therapist. We need to ask ourselves, is this someone who will be honest with me, listen to criticism, admit making mistakes, and not promise the impossible?”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“we often mistake love for fireworks—for drama and dysfunction. But real love is very quiet, very still. It’s boring, if seen from the perspective of high drama. Love is deep and calm—and constant.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“love that doesn’t include honesty doesn’t deserve to be called love.”
― Alex Michaelides, The Silent Patient

“It’s no coincidence that the style of writing known as stream of consciousness was pioneered by Irish authors. Critics have missed the point, however, in regarding it as a radical, experimental reaction against literary convention. For many Irish people, the avant-garde monologue is the most commonplace form of everyday speech; and a very liberating thing it is too. Like the best kind of journey, it’s always liable to veer off in entirely unexpected directions and lead you to destinations you might never otherwise have considered.”
― Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

“We were imbued with the sound of the wind that blew in from the seashore, beating in our ears every morning, clearing our brains and rinsing the dust from our skulls.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“If life is a book, then read it while you can. Don’t save up any pages for later, because there might not be one.”
― Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

“The old stuffs for overseas. The new stuff’s for Ireland. Dublin mostly. Things are changing. Traditional design is synonymous with the past. They want to sit at glass tables now, with weird chairs, and good-looking women.”
― Pete McCarthy, McCarthy's Bar: A Journey of Discovery in Ireland

“The factory made a few rubber toys as a blind. It made its big profits from other rubber articles which were bought in whispers.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“stripped bare and had that look of a near-sighted man with his glasses off,”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“His heart was willing but his skill was nil.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“It takes a lot of doing to die.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“She read the words over aloud. They sounded like words that came in a can; the freshness was cooked out of them.”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“In one of the flats, the apelike teamster, ordering his unwilling wife to prepare for bed, heard Katie’s first scream and ejaculated,”
― Betty Smith, A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

“This is how a person’s life ebbs away bit by bit, a good portion of it spent in useless pursuits.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“Everyone was half banjaxed”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“I took the flat of my hand and gave him a smack in his earhole.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“God’s help is closer than the door,”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“the memory of an evil deed is long, and never dies.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“I remember being at my mother’s breast.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“marriage gives a man a zest for life. As they say, my life had been sheer paradise before that.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry

“Living too long is worst of all No one cares or comes to call.”
― Tomas O'Crohan, The Islander. Complete and Unabridged A translation of An tOileánach: An account of life on the Great Blasket Island off the west coast of Kerry