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Brendan Behan Inspirational Quotes (44)

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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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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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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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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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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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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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I am a daylight atheist.
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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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The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
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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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