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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

Brendan Behan

I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Funny Marriage Sexy
When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
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People Talking Way
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
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Country Dublin Irish Life People
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
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

If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

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