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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.

Brendan Behan

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
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
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
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
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
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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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Country Funny Irish People Spiritual
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined

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