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A man is fortunate if he encounters living examples of vice, as well as of virtue, to inspire him.
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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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
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I ruined my health drinking to other people's.
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I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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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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Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
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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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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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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 big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
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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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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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