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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

Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
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
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
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
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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 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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