If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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 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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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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A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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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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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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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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I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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