Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
BRENDAN BEHANThere’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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