Brendan Behan Quotes and Sayings - Page 1
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“The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.”
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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 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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“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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“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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“One drink is to many for me and a thousand not enough.”
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“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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“Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.”
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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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“I saw a notice that said "Drink Canada Dry" and I've just started.”
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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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“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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“I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.”
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“There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.”
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“There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.”
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“God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.”
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“I'm a Communist by day and a Catholic as soon as it gets dark.”
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“I think weddings are sadder than funerals, because they remind you of your own wedding. You can't be reminded of your own funeral because it hasn't happened. But weddings always make me cry.”
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“An author's first duty is to let down his country.”
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“There's no bad publicity except an obituary.”
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“Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.”
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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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“The terrorist is the one with the small bomb.”
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“Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?”
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“All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.”
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“The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of matress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.”
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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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“Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.”
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