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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined

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