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Brendan Behan

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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
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
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
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
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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Beer Summer Winter
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
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let

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