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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.

Brendan Behan

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
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
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
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter

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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