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 BEHANWhatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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