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Brendan Behan

Dramatist Ireland 1923–1964

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Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
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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 say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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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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A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
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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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Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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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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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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