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Brendan Behan [1923-1964] Irish

Rank: 101
Dramatist, Poet

Brendan Francis Aidan Behan was an Irish Republican, poet, short story writer, novelist, and playwright who wrote in both English and Irish. He is widely regarded as one of the greatest Irish writers and poets of all time. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army.

Alone, Fear, Food, Love, Marriage, Money, Relationship, Respect, Saint Patrick's Day, Society, Women

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At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.		101
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.	Money	102
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.	Saint Patrick's Day	103
The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody to love you.	Relationship	104
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.		105
It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.	Respect	106
A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.	Love	107
Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.	Fear	108
If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.		109
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.		110
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.	Food, Society, Women	111
Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.		112
One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.		113
What an author likes to write most is his signature on the back of a cheque.		114
Inspirations never go in for long engagements; they demand immediate marriage to action.	Marriage	115
A quotation in a speech, article or book is like a rifle in the hands of an infantryman. It speaks with authority.		116
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.		117
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?	Alone	118
All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.		119
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.		120
No yesterdays are ever wasted for those who give themselves to today.		121
If you accept your limitations you go beyond them.		122
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.		123
I am a drinker with writing problems.		124
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.		125
I am a daylight atheist.		126
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.		201
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.		202
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.		203
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.		204
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.		205
No man can discover his own talents.		206
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.		207
I wish I'd been a mixed infant.		208

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