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

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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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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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I postpone death by living, by suffering, by error, by risking, by giving, by losing. – Anais Nin

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A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor. – Aldous Huxley

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It is possible to provide security against other ills, but as far as death is concerned, we men live in a city without walls. – Epicurus

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The history of the world is the record of the weakness, frailty and death of public opinion. – Samuel Butler

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