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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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People Talking Way
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish 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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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.
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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two

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