Frases de Flann O'Brien (48 citas)

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“La mayoría de las cosas buenas de la vida se asocian a ciertas desventajas”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“El principio básico de la sabiduría se basa en hacer preguntas pero no contestar ninguna”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Tu forma de hablar -dije- Es sin duda un trabajo hecho a mano por la sabiduría, porque no he entendido ni una palabra”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Ciertos pensamientos que no tienen ninguna posibilidad de éxito no se toman la molestia de pasar por tu cabeza”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“¿La vida?, estaría mejor sin ella, pues tiene poca y rara utilidad. No puedes comerla o beberla, o fumártela en pipa, no te resguarda de la lluvia y sabe a poco cuando la desnudas y la llevas a la cama tras una noche de cervezas, temblando, ardiente de pasión. La vida es un gran error, algo de lo que más vale prescindir, como los orinales o el bacon extranjero.”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Haga siempre cualquier pregunta que tenga que hacer y no responda ninguna. Aproveche en su interés todo lo que oiga. Lleve siempre consigo material de repuesto. Gire a la izquierda el mayor número de veces posible. Nunca frene primero con el freno de delante.”

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"El Tercer Policía"

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“Ahora no es hoy, es ayer”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Empiezo a estar asustado de ver algunas cosas, por si acaso tengo que creérmelas.”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Me parece un tipo de facilidad muy difícil.”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“La filosofía y la religión pueden, al parecer, iluminar oscuros vericuetos y suministrar fuerzas para soportar las cargas desacostumbradas”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Es tan fino que puede que ni siquiera exista.”

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"El Tercer Policía"

“Descartes pasó largas temporadas en la cama sujeto a la persistente alucinación de que estaba pensado. Tú no estás libre de un trastorno similar.”

Flann O'Brien libro The Dalkey Archive

"The Dalkey Archive"

“¿Quieres decir que como no tengo nombre no puedo morir y que tú no te haces responsable de mi muerte incluso si me matas?”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“El Infierno da vueltas y más vueltas. Su forma es circular y su naturaleza interminable, repetitiva y muy próxima a lo insoportable”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

“Las preguntas son como los golpes de mendigos, no deben tenerse en cuenta”

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“Alguna salvaje capacidad de observación le dijo que la mayoría de la gente respetable tenía muchos libros en su casa”

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"The Best of Myles"

“Observé que mi ingenio no era apreciado, así que cuidadosamente volví a depositarlo en mi valiosa mente”

Flann O'Brien

"At Swin-Two Birds"

“Estaba completamente medio asustado de pensar”

Flann O'Brien

"El Tercer Policía"

Flann O'Brien: Frases en inglés

“I saw that my witticism was unperceived and quietly replaced it in the treasury of my mind.”

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Flann O'Brien libro At Swim-Two-Birds

Fuente: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939)

“You mean that because I have no name I cannot die and that you cannot be held answerable for death even if you kill me?”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“Your talk," I said, "is surely the handiwork of wisdom because not one word of it do I understand.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Fuente: The Third Policeman (1967)

“I am completely half afraid to think.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Fuente: The Third Policeman (1967)

“A wise old owl once lived in a wood, the more he heard the less he said, the less he said the more he heard, let's emulate that wise old bird.”

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Flann O'Brien libro At Swim-Two-Birds

Fuente: At Swim-Two-Birds

“Hell goes round and round. In shape it is circular, and by nature it is interminable, repetitive, and nearly unbearable.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Fuente: The Third Policeman (1967)

“Moderation, we find, is an extremely difficult thing to get in this country.”

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Flann O'Brien

Fuente: The Best of Myles (1968)

“What you think is the point is not the point at all but only the beginning of the sharpness.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Fuente: The Third Policeman

“Descartes spent far too much time in bed subject to the persistent hallucination that he was thinking. You are not free from a similar disorder.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Dalkey Archive

"The Dalkey archive" (1964)
Fuente: The Dalkey Archive

“Anybody who has the courage to raise his eyes and look sanely at the awful human condition… must realize finally that tiny periods of temporary release from intolerable suffering is the most that any individual has the right to expect.”

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“When things go wrong and will not come right,
Though you do the best you can,
When life looks black as the hour of night,
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

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Flann O'Brien libro At Swim-Two-Birds

Fuente: At Swim-Two-Birds

“When money's tight and is hard to get
And your horse has also ran,
When all you have is a heap of debt
A PINT OF PLAIN IS YOUR ONLY MAN.”

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“Strange enlightenments are vouchsafed to those who seek the higher places.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Fuente: The Third Policeman (1967)

“Often in the theatre I can hardly hear myself talking or assuring my doxy that so-and-so is the same fellow that played so-and-so in so-and-so, he's very good, he's a civil servant in the Department of Agriculture, I met a sister of his in Skerries, and so on. Actors should conduct themselves like the rest of us and practise the unobtrusive intonation of the gentleman.”

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Flann O'Brien

Page 37
The Best of Myles (1968)

“The gross and net result of it is that people who spent most of their natural lives riding iron bicycles over the rocky roadsteads of this parish get their personalities mixed up with the personalities of their bicycle as a result of the interchanging of the atoms of each of them and you would be surprised at the number of people in these parts who nearly are half people and half bicycles.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Page 85
The Third Policeman (1967)

“Is it life?" he answered, "I would rather be without it," he said, "for there is queer small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night of porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed-jars and foreign bacon.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“When things go wrong and will not come right”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“My father…was a man who understood all dogs thoroughly and treated them like human beings.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“One beginning and one ending for a book was a thing I did not agree with. A good book may have three openings entirely dissimilar and inter-related only in the prescience of the author, or for that matter one hundred times as many endings.”

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Flann O'Brien

Fuente: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939), P. 9.

“The majority of the members of the Irish parliament are professional politicians, in the sense that otherwise they would not be given jobs minding mice at a crossroads.”

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Page 171
The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

“You told me what the first rule of wisdom is," I said. "What is the second rule?"
"That can be answered," he said. "There are five in all. Always ask any questions that are to be asked and never answer any. Turn everything you hear to your own advantage. Always carry a repair outfit. Take left turns as much as possible. Never apply your front brake first…If you follow them," said the Sergeant, "you will save your soul and you will never get a fall on a slippy road.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

Page 60
The Third Policeman (1967)

“I felt so sad and so entirely disappointed that tears came into my eyes and a lump of incommunicable poignancy swelled tragically in my throat. I began to feel intensely every fragment of my equal humanity. The life that was bubbling at the end of my fingers was real and nearly painful in intensity and so was the beauty of my warm face and the loose humanity of my limbs and the racy health of my red rich blood. To leave it all without good reason and to smash the little empire into small fragments was a thing too pitiful even to refuse to think about.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“Is it life? I would rather be without it, for there is quare small utility in it. You cannot eat it or drink it or smoke it in your pipe, it does not keep the rain out and it is a poor armful in the dark if you strip it and take it to bed with you after a night's porter when you are shivering with the red passion. It is a great mistake and a thing better done without, like bed jars and foreign bacon. Many a man has spent a hundred years trying to get the dimensions of it and when he understands it at last and entertains the certain pattern of it in his head, be the hokey he takes to his bed and dies. He dies like a poisoned sheepdog. There is nothing so dangerous you can't smoke it, nobody will give you tuppence halfpenny for the half of it, and it kills you in the wind-up. It is a quare contraption, very dangerous, a certain death-trap.”

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Page 165
The Various Lives Of Keats And Chapman (2010)

“Some savage faculty for observation told him that most respectable and estimable people usually had a lot of books in their houses.”

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Page 17
The Best of Myles (1968)

“It cannot be too often repeated that I am not for sale. I was bought in 1921 and the transaction was final and conclusive.”

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Page 282
The Best of Myles (1968)

“If Irish were to die completely, the standard of English here, both in the spoken and written word, would sink to a level probably as low as that obtaining in England and it would stop there only because it could go no lower.”

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Page 283
The Best of Myles (1968)

“After a time," said old Mathers disregarding me, "I mercifully perceived the errors of my ways and the unhappy destination I would reach unless I mended them. I retired from the world in order to try to comprehend it and to find out why it becomes more unsavoury as the years accumulate on a man's body. What do you think I discovered at the end of my meditations?”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

“Do you know what I am going to tell you, he said with his wry mouth, a pint of plain is your only man.”

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Flann O'Brien

Fuente: "At Swim-Two-Birds" (1939), P. 22.

“Waiting for the German verb is surely the ultimate thrill.”

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Page 143
The Hair of the Dogma (1977)

“"Who is Fox?", I asked.”

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Flann O'Brien libro The Third Policeman

The Third Policeman (1967)

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