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 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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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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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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