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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

Brendan Behan

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
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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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Criticism Editors Funny
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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People Talking Way
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
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis

That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.

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