Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANI saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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