There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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 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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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