I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
BRENDAN BEHANI am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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 bad publicity except an obituary.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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