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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You

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