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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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No man can discover his own talents.
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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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I cannot imagine any crime worse than taking a life, can you? -It'd depend whose life.
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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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Pound notes are the best religion in the world.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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Prostitutes, more than any other profession, help keep American marriages together.
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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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God forgive us-but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.
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Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
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Most horror movies are certainly that.
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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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I am a daylight atheist.
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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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I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
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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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