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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.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Contempt Jailer Prison
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Beer Summer Winter
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Determination Men Suicide
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Funny Money World
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Prayer Results Scream
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Differences History Men
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Down Firsts Let
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Fighting Men Two Woman

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