Every cripple has his own way of walking.
BRENDAN BEHANFailure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
More Brendan Behan Quotes
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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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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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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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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.
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles … it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper and the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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