There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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