Irish - Dramatist | February 9, 1923 - March 20, 1964
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.
Brendan Behan
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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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A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
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If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
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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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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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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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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
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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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