Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHANI was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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