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.
BRENDAN BEHANNinety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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