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I am a daylight atheist.

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
Daylight
Atheist
Atheism

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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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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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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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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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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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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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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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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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What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
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