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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
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
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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Determination Men Suicide
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman

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