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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

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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Funny Marriage Sexy
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
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.
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Beer Summer Winter
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Cost General Living Mind War

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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