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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

I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men 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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
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
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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

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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