Flann O'Brien Quotes
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I thought I knew everything when I came to Rome, but I soon found I had everything to learn.
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I was born in London and raised in Rome until I was 4. Then we went back to London, where I went to school.
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Ben Rome was a perfectionist. He checked every letter that went out to make sure the English was correct.
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I have a long view of history - my orientation is archaeological because I'm always thinking in terms of ancient Greece and Rome, ancient Persia and Egypt.
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In Italy, there are so many significant architectural structures in history such as the Pantheon in Rome, or the Duomo.
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Moving from Rome to Brussels was hard.
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We realized we were able to build the same house at the same price or less with less headaches. It makes it easier for us to build the houses.
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Whether I'm at a dinner with Anna Wintour or a listening party with Pusha T or in Rome with Virgil (Abloh, his style adviser) giving Fendi our designs and getting them knocked down... we brought the leather jogging pants six years ago to Fendi, and they said no. How many m*****f***ers you done seen with a leather jogging pant?
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What would life be like if everybody insisted you must have actually built such-and-such a thing by yourself? I'd be an old man and have nothing to show for the aging.
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All the work built my fame and certainly made me more money, but the toll it took in my home was not good.
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It is a very good world for the purposes for which it was built; and that is all anything is good for.
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Rome is no longer in Rome, it is here where I am.
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I have a radar built inside me to avoid punches.
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Built God a church and laughed His word to scorn.
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One unerring mark of the love of truth is not entertaining any proposition with greater assurance than the proofs it is built upon will warrant.
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There was a young man in Rome that was very like Augustus Caesar; Augustus took knowledge of it and sent for the man, and asked him "Was your mother never at Rome?" He answered "No Sir; but my father was."
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The philosopher believes that the value of his philosophy lies in the whole, in the building: posterity discovers it in the bricks with which he built and which are then often used again for better building: in the fact, that is to say, that building can be destroyed and nonetheless possess value as material.
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Among twelve apostles there must always be one who is as hard as stone, so that the new church may be built upon him.
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Hope will break your heart all over again.
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Therefore, is thy brother a sinner? Then cover his sin and pray for him. Dost thou publish his sins, then truly thou art not a child of your merciful Father; for otherwise thou wouldst be also as he, merciful. It is certainly true that we cannot show as great mercy to our neighbor, as God has to us; but it is the true work of the devil that we do the very opposite of mercy, which is a sure sign that there is not a grain of mercy in us.
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That's all I think about these days. Must be because I have so much time to kill every day. When you don't have anything to do, your thoughts get really, really far out - so far out you can't follow them all the way to the end.
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Botox? I think it's fantastic and also horrible.
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This Government, the offspring of your own choice, uninfluenced and unawed, adopted upon full investigation and mature deliberation, completely free in its principles, in the distribution of its powers, uniting security with energy, and containing within itself a provision for its own amendment, has a just claim to your confidence and your support.
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Rome wasn't built in A.D.
