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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 am a daylight atheist.
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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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No man can discover his own talents.
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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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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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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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Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
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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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They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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