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No man can discover his own talents.

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
Talents
Discover
Talent
Men

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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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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 cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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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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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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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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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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Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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 have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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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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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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I am a daylight atheist.
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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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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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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