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

Brendan Behan

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
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
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
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor 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
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
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

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

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