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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
An author's first duty is to let down his country.
Brendan Behan
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem. They're there every night, they see it done every night, they see how it should be done every night, but they can't do it themselves.
Brendan Behan
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.
Brendan Behan
He was born an Englishman and remained one for years.
Brendan Behan
I'm a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
I only drink on two occasions - When I am thirsty and when I'm not.
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.
Brendan Behan
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
Brendan Behan
The sun was in mind to come out but having a look at the weather it was in lost heart and went back again.
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.
Brendan Behan
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
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.
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.
Brendan Behan
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.
Brendan Behan
I am a daylight atheist.
Brendan Behan
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.
Brendan Behan
They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues...
Brendan Behan
Mother, they would praise my balls if I hung them high enough.
Brendan Behan
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