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No man can discover his own talents.
Written by Brendan Behan
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.
Written by Brendan Behan
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Written by Brendan Behan
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.
Written by Brendan Behan
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.
Written by Brendan Behan
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.
Written by Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Written by Brendan Behan
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.
Written by Brendan Behan
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.
Written by Brendan Behan
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.
Written by Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Written by Brendan Behan
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.
Written by Brendan Behan
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.
Written by Brendan Behan
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.
Written by Brendan Behan
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.
Written by Brendan Behan
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Written by Brendan Behan
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Written by Brendan Behan
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Written by Brendan Behan
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.
Written by Brendan Behan
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.
Written by Brendan Behan
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Written by Brendan Behan
At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.
Written by Brendan Behan
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?
Written by Brendan Behan
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Written by Brendan Behan
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Written by Brendan Behan
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Written by Brendan Behan
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Written by Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Written by Brendan Behan
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
Written by Brendan Behan
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
Written by Brendan Behan

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