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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.

Brendan Behan

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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People Talking Way
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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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Cost General Living Mind War
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Funny Marriage Sexy
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
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

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