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 BEHANIf you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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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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