If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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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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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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