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Brendan Behan

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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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
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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Cost General Living Mind War
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Saint Theatre Two Years
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
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

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