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When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.

Brendan Behan

Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Judging Said Umpires
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Saint Theatre Two Years

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