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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Brendan Behan

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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
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
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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Funny Marriage Sexy
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
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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

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