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You made one mistake. You married me.

Brendan Behan

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
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
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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Criticism Editors Funny
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing

You made one mistake. You married me.

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