“The earth makes a sound as of sighs and the last drops fall from the emptied cloudless sky. A small boy, stretching out his hands and looking up at the blue sky, asked his mother how such a thing was possible. Fuck off, she said.”
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“If there were only three Irishmen in the world you'd find two of them in a corner talking about the other.”
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“Being Irish, he had an abiding sense of tragedy, which sustained him through temporary periods of joy.”
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“There's no sense to being Irish unless you know the world's going to break your heart.”
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