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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

He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
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
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
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
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
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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

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