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Brendan Behan

I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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Differences History Men
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Funny Marriage Sexy
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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Accepting Country Irish Limitation People
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
A pedestrian ought to be legally allowed to toss at least one hand grenade at a motorist every day.
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Hands Life Modern Toss
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
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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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People Talking Way
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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