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.
BRENDAN BEHANScream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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