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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

Brendan Behan

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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
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
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
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
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

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