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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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
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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
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
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing

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