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Brendan Behan

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People
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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Cost General Living Mind War
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food

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