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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.

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Brendan Behan
Age: 41 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 9
Died: 1964
Died: March 20
Journalist
Poet
Songwriter
Writer
Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan
Obituary
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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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