An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
BRENDAN BEHANIn 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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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