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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

Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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
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
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
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People

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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