Brendan Behan Quotes
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They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues.
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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That you, sister. May you be the mother of a bishop.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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Other people's interruptions of your work are relatively insignificant compared with the countless times you interrupt yourself.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.
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Critics are like eunuchs; they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.
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Whatever you hold in contempt is your jailer.
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I am a daylight atheist.
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There's no bad publicity except an obituary.
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It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
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