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 BEHANI 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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