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You made one mistake. You married me.

Brendan Behan

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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
Cynical
Married
Mistake
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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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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I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
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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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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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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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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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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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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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