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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

Brendan Behan

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
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.
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Determination Men Suicide
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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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Criticism Editors Funny

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