I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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