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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.

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
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
Many a man has decided to stay alive not because of the will to live but because of the determination not to give assorted surviving bastards the satisfaction of his death.
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Determination Men Suicide
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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
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
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
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

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