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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.

Brendan Behan

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
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years

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