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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

God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
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
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
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

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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