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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
Brendan Behan
Publicity
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
Spiritual
I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds.
Brendan Behan
Words
I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence.
Brendan Behan
Death
Absence
Court
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
Brendan Behan
Irish
It is a good deed to forget a poor joke.
Brendan Behan
Deed
Forget
Poor
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
Irish
Respect
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
Brendan Behan
People
Irish
Nationality
Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in.
Brendan Behan
Pretty
Shakespeare
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
Bible
Old
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
Love
World
What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.
Brendan Behan
Men
Difference
Hell
Right
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.
Brendan Behan
Death
Absence
I am a drinker with writing problems.
Brendan Behan
Problems
Writing
The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less.
Brendan Behan
Money
Sex
Difference