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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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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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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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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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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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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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The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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 ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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