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“No snowflake in an avalanche ever feels responsible.”
― In Silent Graves: The Cedar Hills Series
― In Silent Graves: The Cedar Hills Series
“I didn’t spend a lifetime studying theology, but I know that the Church was always against Ireland and for the British Empire.”
― Borstal Boy
― Borstal Boy
“Love isn't a smiling bride who holds a colorful bouquet and gazes lovingly at her husband; it's a corpse-littered battlefield where the walking wounded have to keep searching for survivors or die themselves.”
― In Silent Graves
― In Silent Graves
“Don't speak of your Protestant minister,
Nor of his church without meaning or faith,
For the foundation stone of his temple
Was the bollocks of Henry VIII Brendan Behan”
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Nor of his church without meaning or faith,
For the foundation stone of his temple
Was the bollocks of Henry VIII Brendan Behan”
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“If I was willing to serve Mass, it was in memory of my ancestors standing around a rock, in a lonely glen, for fear of the landlords and their yeomen, or sneaking through a back-lane in Dublin, and giving the pass-word, to hear Mass in a slum public-house, when a priest’s head was worth five pounds and an Irish Catholic had no existence in law.”
― Borstal Boy
― Borstal Boy
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