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

Brendan Behan

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
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
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
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman

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