Tom Phelan
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“But without it ever having been said, we knew we could depend on each other for a bullet to the head if that ever became a necessity. It takes something beyond the love of brothers to depend on each other to that extreme—maybe it’s just an emotionless acceptance of reality, maybe it’s just behaviour of unabating extreme conditions.”
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“I always thought the catechism was wrong where it said man is made in God’s image and likeness; it should have said God is made in man’s image and likeness.”
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“If you are different in a small community, your difference is dressed up in kindliness and rendered acceptable, just like all that dreadful leftover pig-stuff gets dressed up in a skin and is called a sausage. Francis of Assiss was saintly because he was batty. I’m batty because I’m feisty. It’s better to be saintly than batty, better to be a batty woman than a feisty one.”
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