Quotes by Brendan F. Behan

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  I was court-martial in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.

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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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  All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.

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  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.

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  God forgive us—but most of us grew up to be the sort of men our mothers warned us against.

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  I am a daylight atheist.

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  If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

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  Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.

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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.
  Source: Brendan Behan: interviews and recollections (1982)

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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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  One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.

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  Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
  Source: The wit of Brendan Behan (1968)

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  So many belonging to me lay buried in Kilbarrack, the healthiest graveyard in Ireland, they said, because it was so near the sea.
  Source: Borstal Boy pt. 3 (1958)

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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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  The English and Americans dislike only some Irish - the same Irish that the Irish themselves detest, Irish writers - the ones that think.