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Brendan Behan

I only take a drink on two occasions – when I’m thirsty and when I’m not.
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Alcohol Drinking Two
Failure at a task may be the result of having tackled it at the wrong time.
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May Results Tasks
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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Friendship Hurt Writing
There’s no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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Like Love One Love You
An author’s first duty is to let down his country.
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Country Down Firsts Let
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
I ruined my health drinking to other people’s.
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Drinking People Ruined
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
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
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Country Inspirational Irish People Psychosis
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 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
That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Funny Humor Mother
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
Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Cinema Horror Most
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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Deeds Forget Poor
One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Addiction Country Enough Irish People
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
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
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 Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.
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Catholic Communist Dark
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
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
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
I saw a notice that said “Drink Canada Dry” and I’ve just started.
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Beer Drinking Food
There’s no bad publicity except an obituary.
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