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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
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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People Talking Way
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
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss

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

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