Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHANI am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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