I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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