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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
Obituary
Publicity
Notice
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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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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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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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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I am a daylight atheist.
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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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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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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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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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
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