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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.

Brendan Behan

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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis

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