"An author's first duty is to let down…" — Brendan Behan
"An author's first duty is to let down his country."
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64 Quotes by Brendan Behan
Brendan Behan has 64 quotes on this site.
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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…
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The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot…
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Other people have a nationality. The Irish and the Jews have a psychosis.
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I have a total irreverence for anything connected with society except that which makes the roads safer, the beer stronger,…
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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…
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There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary.
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If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks.
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The most important things to do in the world are to get something to eat, something to drink and somebody…
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I am a drinker with writing problems.
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I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn't make it worse.
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Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops.
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I was court-martialled in my absence, and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me…
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It is my contention that civil disobediences are nothing but the latest form of voluntary association, and that they are…
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As far as we are concerned, we are ready to leave today, tomorrow, at any time, to join the people…
— Jean-Bertrand Aristide
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Our efforts are not aimed at isolating Israel or de-legitimizing it; rather we want to gain legitimacy for the cause…
— Mahmoud Abbas
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It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no…
— Lance Armstrong
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An illness is like a journey into a far country; it sifts all one's experience and removes it to a…
— Sholem Asch
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Today, the Iraqi citizen sees that America is coming and wants to occupy his country and kill him, and he…
— Bashar al-Assad
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What a country needs to do is be fair to all its citizens - whether people are of a different…
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I mean, it is an extraordinary thing that a large proportion of your country and my country, of the citizens,…
— David Attenborough
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Presidents do not go off on leave without telling the country.
— Chinua Achebe
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Canada is a balloon-puncturing country. You are not really allowed to be an icon unless you also make an idiot…
— Margaret Atwood
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I've had trouble now and again in Nigeria because I have spoken up about the mistreatment of factions in the…
— Chinua Achebe
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Foreignness is all around. Only in the heart of the heart of the country, namely the heart of the United…
— Margaret Atwood
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