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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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I am a daylight atheist.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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