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Brendan Behan

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    A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.

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    Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.

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    All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

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    A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.

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    An author's first duty is to let down his country.

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    A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.

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    Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!

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    Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.

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    Every cripple has his own way of walking.

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    Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

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    God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

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    He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

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    I am a daylight atheist.

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    I am a drinker with writing problems.

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    I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.

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    I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.

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    If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.

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    If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

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    I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

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    I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.

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    I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

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    I'm a drinker with a writing problem.

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    In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.

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    I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.

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    I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.

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    I ruined my health drinking to other people's.

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    I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.

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    It is a good deed to forget a poor joke

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    I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.

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    It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.

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    I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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    I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

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    Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.

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    Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

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    Most horror movies are certainly that.

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    New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment... a place where you're least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.

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    Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

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    Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

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    One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.

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    Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

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    Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.

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    Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

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    Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.

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    Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.

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    Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

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    That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

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    The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

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    The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.

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    The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.

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    The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.