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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Brendan Behan

You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
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
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People

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