Brendan Behan Quotes

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Brendan Behan

Profession : Dramatist

Birth : February 9, 1923

I am a drinker with writing problems.

Brendan Behan

It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.

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.

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I wish I'd been a mixed infant.

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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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If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.

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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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What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.

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I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.

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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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Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.

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