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

Brendan Behan

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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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Criticism Editors Funny
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
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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Cost General Living Mind War
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Made Miserable Situation
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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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People Talking Way
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
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

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