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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 most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
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
Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.
Brendan Behan
A general and a bit of shooting makes you forget your troubles ... it takes your mind off the cost of living.
Brendan Behan
I saw a notice that said Drink Canada Dry and I've just started.
Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Brendan Behan
They took away our land, our language, and our religion but they could never harness our tongues.
Brendan Behan
To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
Brendan Behan
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.
Brendan Behan
Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke
Brendan Behan
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
Brendan Behan
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.
Brendan Behan
Critics are like eunuchs they can tell you what to do, but they can't do it themselves!
Brendan Behan
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with a writing problem.
Brendan Behan
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan
