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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.

Brendan Behan

Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking 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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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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Cost General Living Mind War
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
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

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