I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
BRENDAN BEHANMany 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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