The Dalkey Archive Quotes

“Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive

“...and you would be unutterably flibbergasted if you knew the number of stout bicycles that partake serenely of humanity.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive

“To say there is a time and a place for everything is trite, but the truth of the sentiment is not to be denied for all that; one could play the accordion while having a bath but probably nobody has ever tried to do that.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive

“Yet, it is strange and sad to live so close to one so dear and yet have no real point of contact outside banal and trivial smalltalk, no access to exchanges of the mind. Did he not notice the state nearly all his shirts were getting into? How often must he be reminded to buy at least four pairs of socks? Ah, but it was a sweet dead-end.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive

“I dedicate these pages
to my Guardian Angel,
impressing upon him
that I'm only fooling
and warning him
to see to it that
there is no misunderstanding
when I go home.”
― Flann O'Brien, The Dalkey Archive