A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
BRENDAN BEHANNew 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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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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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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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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