A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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