Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
BRENDAN BEHANWhatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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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 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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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