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.
BRENDAN BEHANI 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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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