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

Brendan Behan

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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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 only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss

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

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