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Brendan Behan
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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 have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse.
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I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
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I wish I’d been a mixed infant.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
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It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
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New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat.
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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a nudge from meself, put in.
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The Irish are a very popular race… with themselves.
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To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.
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I saw a notice which said, ‘Drink Canada Dry’ and I’ve just started.
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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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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 most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
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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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‘Too young to die. Too drunk to live.‘
Renee McCall of the Daily Express
on the passingof Brendan Behan
on 20th March 1964 at the age of 41.
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