Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
BRENDAN BEHANIn 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.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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