I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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