I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
BRENDAN BEHANA man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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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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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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