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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it’s done, they’ve seen it done every day, but they’re unable to do it themselves.
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Criticism Editors Funny
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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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Beer Summer Winter
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models

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