I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
BRENDAN BEHANHe was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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 two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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