An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
BRENDAN BEHANI’m a drinker with a writing problem.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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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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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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