Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
BRENDAN BEHANOther people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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