I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
BRENDAN BEHANGod forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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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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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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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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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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