Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANEvery cripple has his own way of walking.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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