THE WISDOM OF BRENDAN BEHAN: When I came back to Dublin I was court martialed in my absence and sentenced to death in my absence, so I said they could shoot me in my absence. * * * There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary. 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. * * * I am a daylight atheist. * * * I am a drinker with writing problems. 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. * * * I have never seen a situation so dismal that a policeman couldn’t make it worse. * * * I say myself no depressed words just depressed minds. I wish I’d been a mixed infant. * * * If it was raining soup, the Irish would go out with forks. * * * It is a good deed to forget a poor joke. It’s not that the Irish are cynical. It’s rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody. * * * New York is my Lourdes, where I go for spiritual refreshment… a place where you’re least likely to be bitten by a wild goat. * * * One drink is too many for me and a thousand not enough.
Posted on: Tue, 27 Aug 2013 04:04:48 +0000
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