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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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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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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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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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 am a daylight atheist.
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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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They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
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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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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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