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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.

Brendan Behan

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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
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

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