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Brendan Behan

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
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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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
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
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
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
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity

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

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