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Behan Brendan QUOTES

  • “They took away our land, our language, and our religion; but they could never harness our tongues…”

  • If you greatly desire something, have the guts to stake everything on obtaining it.

  • Every man, through fear, mugs his aspirations a dozen times a day.

  • A man is already halfway in love with any woman who listens to him.



  • “It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody.”

  • “I’m a drinker with writing problems.”

  • “I respect kindness in 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 the old men and old women warmer in the winter and happier in the summer.

  • 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.

  • At the innermost core of all loneliness is a deep and powerful yearning for union with one's lost self.


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