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"Mr Dangerfield, why don't you believe in hell and things like that?"
"Hell is for poor people."

— J. P. Donleavy The Ginger Man (1955)

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They say there is good in everyone. If you just give them a chance. And a good boot in the arse.

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"I swim back to the shores of privilege out of the sea of the dispossessed."

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In a big bowl full of hatred can you ever find a spoonful of love.

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Reach up to put a hand to some dream you kept awake. Now you take it like a red ripe apple and polish quietly up and down one's sleeve.

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My god, one can see such a different side of people when one's merely a menial.
O God what utter amazing ruddy bliss to no longer be a menial.

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