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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

You made one mistake. You married me.
BRENDAN BEHAN

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.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Determination Men Suicide
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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
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
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
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 was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Dublin Irish Life People
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Catholic Communist Dark
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
BRENDAN BEHAN

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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