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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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Hell
Think
Thinking
Postman
Bloody
Clever
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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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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Critics are like eunuchs they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
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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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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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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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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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Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
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I am a daylight atheist.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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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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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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