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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

I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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
When I’m talking to people I like to stop and quote myself. My quotes have a way of spicing up conversation.
BRENDAN BEHAN

People Talking Way
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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Determination Men Suicide
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing

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