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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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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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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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