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I am a drinker with writing problems.

Brendan Behan

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Brendan Behan
Age: 41 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 9
Died: 1964
Died: March 20
Journalist
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Writer
Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan
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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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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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In a society which really supported marriage the wife would be encouraged to go to the office and make love to her husband on the company's time and with its blessing.
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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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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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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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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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I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
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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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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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I am a daylight atheist.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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