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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

Brendan Behan

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
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
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
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
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
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
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing

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