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Every cripple has his own way of walking.

Brendan Behan

A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem 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 saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment

Every cripple has his own way of walking.

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