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Quote by Brendan Behan
When I came back to Dublin I was courtmartialed in my absence and

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

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

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alone
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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 in my absence. – Brendan Behan

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Death
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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. – Brendan Behan

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The end of the animal trade would leave more time to trap or beat to death pop star wannabes. – Simon Cowell

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I have two luxuries to brood over in my walks, your loveliness and the hour of my death. O that I could have possession of them both in the same minute. – John Keats

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If the heart stops for more than two minutes, you have massive brain death. There are only two minutes between our conscious world and zero. Thats how fragile our consciousness is. – Robin Gibb

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My mortal foe can no ways wish me a greater harm than Englands hate neither should death be less welcome unto me than such a mishap betide me. – Elizabeth I

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