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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.

Brendan Behan

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
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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Country Dublin Irish Life People
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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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Blessing Husband Marriage
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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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Determination Men Suicide
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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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Beer Summer Winter
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men

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