Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn’t affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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