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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.

Brendan Behan

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
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World

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