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Brendan Behan

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
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
Scream at God if that’s the only thing that will get results.
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Prayer Results Scream
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
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 am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me.
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Children Married Painter
I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
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 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
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Cripples Walking Way
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
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
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

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