I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
BRENDAN BEHANAn author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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