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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.

Brendan Behan

Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHAN

Critics Eunuchs Themselves
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Like Love One Love You
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
BRENDAN BEHAN

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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Inspire Men Role Models
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Addiction Country Enough Irish People

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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