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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
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Dublin city
Brendan Francis Aidan Behan
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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 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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I am a daylight atheist.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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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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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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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 general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
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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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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
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You made one mistake. You married me.
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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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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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They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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