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

Brendan Behan

When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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People Talking Way
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
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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Criticism Editors Funny
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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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Cost General Living Mind War
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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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Determination Men Suicide

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