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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
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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 never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
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I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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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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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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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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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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