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You made one mistake. You married me.

Brendan Behan

I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
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
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food

You made one mistake. You married me.

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