Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
BRENDAN BEHANShakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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