29 ordspråk av Brendan Behan

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Brendan Behan föddes den February 9th 1923 och dog den 20 March 1964 - Irish writer
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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.

 Never throw stones at your mother,
You'll be sorry for it when she's dead,
Never throw stones at your mother,
Throw bricks at your father instead. (The Hostage)

 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.

 Ninety-seven saint days a year wouldn't affect the theater, but two Yom Kippurs would ruin it.

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

 The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

 The Bible was a consolation to a fellow alone in the old cell. The lovely thin paper with a bit of mattress stuffing in it, if you could get a match, was as good a smoke as I ever tasted.

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

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

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

 There's no one, no one, loves you like yourself.

 To get enough to eat was regarded as an achievement. To get drunk was a victory.

 What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides.

 When I came back to Dublin I was court marshaled in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence


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