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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

Brendan Behan

There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Country Dublin Irish Life People
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.

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