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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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No man can discover his own talents.
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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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I never felt so much at home as I do in New York. I must be a devil.
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Nothing hurts more than the friendly letter that one never got around to writing.
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All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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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'm a drinker with a writing problem.
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There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.
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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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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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Every cripple has his own way of walking.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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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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I am a daylight atheist.
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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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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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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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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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