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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

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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined

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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