Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
BRENDAN BEHANMany 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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