“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, Interviews and Recollections Volume 1
― Brendan Behan, Interviews and Recollections Volume 1
“It's a queer world, God knows, but the best we have to be going on with.”
― Borstal Boy
― Borstal Boy
“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.”
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“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.”
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