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Brendan Behan

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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.


— Brendan Behan


#except #obituary #own #publicity #such

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


#cynical #everybody #everything #irish #lack

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.


— Brendan Behan


#day #done #every #every day #harem

I am a drinker with writing problems.


— Brendan Behan


#drinker #i #i am #problems #writing

Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.


— Brendan Behan


#jews #nationality #other #people #psychosis

If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.


— Brendan Behan


#forks #go #irish #out #raining

All publicity is good, except an obituary notice.


— Brendan Behan


#good #notice #obituary #publicity

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


#eat #get #important #important things #love

Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.


— Brendan Behan


#bishops #bless #may #sister #sons

The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.


— Brendan Behan


#big #big difference #costs #difference #free






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She remained politically active all her life and was a personal friend of the Irish republican Michael Collins. Rumours still abound that Littlewood's hand was all over The Quare Fellow and led to the saying "Dylan Thomas wrote Under Milk Wood Brendan Behan wrote under Littlewood". " "One day with Groucho Marx.

Subsequently released from prison as part of a general amnesty given by the Fianna Fáil government in 1946 Behan moved between homes in Dublin Kerry and Connemara and also resided in Paris for a period. He married Beatrice Ffrench-Salkeld in 1955. He was also an Irish republican and a volunteer in the Irish Republican Army.

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