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.
BRENDAN BEHANThe big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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