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Gerald Kersh Quotes

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

When Irish eyes are smiling, watch your step.

Gerald Kersh
Eye, Ireland And The Irish, Watches
Gerald Kersh (1946). “Neither man nor dog: short stories”

There are men whom one hates until a certain moment when one sees, through a chink in their armour, the writhing of something nailed down and in torment.

Gerald Kersh
Hate, Men, Down And
Gerald Kersh, Simon Raven (1960). “The Best of Gerald Kersh”

I can't believe in the God of my Fathers. If there is one Mind which understands all things, it will comprehend me in my unbelief. I don't know whose hand hung Hesperus in the sky, and fixed the Dog Star, and scattered the shining dust of Heaven, and fired the sun, and froze the darkness between the lonely worlds that spin in space.

Gerald Kersh
Lonely, Dog, Stars

Now, you mummy's darlings, get a rift on them boots. Definitely shine em, my little curly-headed lambs, for in our mob, war or no war, you die with clean boots on.

Gerald Kersh
War, Shining, Navy
Gerald Kersh (1945). “Sergeant Nelson of the Guards”, J.C. Winston Company

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