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Samuel Beckett
“Spend the years of learning squandering
Courage for the years of wandering
Through a world politely turning
From the loutishness of learning.”
Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French

Flann O'Brien
“well merciful martyrs in heaven.. did you ever hear the likes of it?.. drinking whisky in a first class carriage and us on a pilgrimage to kneel at the feet of the holy father”
Flann O'Brien, The Hard Life

David  Mitchell
“Books don't offer real escape, but they can stop a mind scratching itself raw.”
David Mitchell, Cloud Atlas

Samuel Beckett
“In the name of Bacon will you chicken me up that egg.
Shall I swallow cave-phantoms?”
Samuel Beckett, Collected Poems in English and French

James Joyce
“Gazing up into the darkness I saw myself as a creature driven and derided by vanity; and my eyes burned with anguish and anger.”
James Joyce, Dubliners

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