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

Brendan Behan

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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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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People Talking Way
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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Beer Summer Winter
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
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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