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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

Brendan Behan

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Brendan Behan
Age: 41 †
Born: 1923
Born: February 9
Died: 1964
Died: March 20
Journalist
Poet
Songwriter
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Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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Scream at God if that's the only thing that will get results.
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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 human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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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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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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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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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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Critics are like eunuchs they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
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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 have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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