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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.
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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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
Brendan Behan
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Brendan Behan
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Brendan Behan
I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
Brendan Behan
No man can discover his own talents.
Brendan Behan
They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
Brendan Behan
Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
Brendan Behan
Message? What the hell do you think I am, a bloody postman?
Brendan Behan
There is no human situation so miserable that it cannot be made worse by the presence of a policeman.
Brendan Behan
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.
Brendan Behan
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
Brendan Behan
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.
Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Brendan Behan
You made one mistake. You married me.
Brendan Behan
Most horror movies are certainly that.
Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan
The English and Americans dislike only some Irish--the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers--the ones that think.
Brendan Behan
