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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.

Brendan Behan

When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
BRENDAN BEHAN

Country Dublin Irish Life People
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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
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
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
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’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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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Beer Summer Winter

I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.

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