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

Brendan Behan

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
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 ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can’t do it themselves!
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Critics Eunuchs Themselves
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
You made one mistake. You married me.
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Cynical Married Mistake
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 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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It’d depend whose life.
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Capital Crime Imagine Punishment
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
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
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark

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