Brendan Behan Quotes
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Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how it's done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.
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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
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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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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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I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
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One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
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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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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
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No man can discover his own talents.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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The prospect of success in achieving our most cherished dream is not without its terrors. Who is more deprived and alone than the man who has achieved his dream?
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He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.