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To read your own poetry in public is a kind of mental incest.: Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show "Confessions of an Irish Rebel" 1984
Critics are like eunuchs in a harem; they know how its done, they've seen it done every day, but they're unable to do it themselves.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
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 (1923 - 1964)

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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.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
I only take a drink on two occasions - when I'm thirsty and when I'm not.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)
I value kindness to human beings first of all, and kindness to animals. I don't respect the law; I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger, the food cheaper, and old men and women warmer in the winter, and happier in the summer.: Brendan Behan (1923 - 1964)

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