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

Brendan Behan

Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
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
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
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
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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Bad Obituary Publicity
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
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
A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Inspire Men Role Models
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
Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Funny Money World
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
I’m a drinker with a writing problem.
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Drinkers Problem Writing
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
Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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Contempt Jailer Prison
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
When two men fight over a woman it’s the fight they want, not the woman.
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Fighting Men Two Woman
I’m a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
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

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