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

Brendan Behan

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
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Born Country Irish People Years
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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
God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Family Forgive Men Mother
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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

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