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You made one mistake. You married me.

Brendan Behan

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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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
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
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
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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