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

Brendan Behan

I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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 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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most

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