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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

A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Cost General Living Mind War
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
BRENDAN BEHAN

May Results Tasks
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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Determination Men Suicide
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Dublin Irish Life People
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Prayer Results Scream
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Hands Life Modern Toss

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

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