Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
BRENDAN BEHANAn author’s first duty is to let down his country.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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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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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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