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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?

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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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Think
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Postman
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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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 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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
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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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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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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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