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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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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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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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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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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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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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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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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