I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
BRENDAN BEHANIf you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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