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Brendan Behan

"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."

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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."

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"Objective journalism and an opinion column are about as similar as the Bible and Playboy magazine."

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"In the Bible it says they asked Jesus how many times you should forgive, and he said 70 times 7. Well, I want you all to know that I'm keeping a chart."

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"The great standard of literature as to purity and exactness of style is the Bible."

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"The Bible and several other self help or enlightenment books cite the Seven Deadly Sins. They are: pride, greed, lust, envy, wrath, sloth, and gluttony. That pretty much covers everything that we do, that is sinful... or fun for that matter."

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Amber Hurdle

"Whatever your relationship is to your sacred tradition in the West, you have some relationship to the Bible if only through the names of the characters."

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Amber Hurdle

"The Bible looks like it started out as a game of Mad Libs."

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"Someone recommended that I read the Bible, and it was then I discovered that I knew nothing about it."

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Amber Hurdle

"What Jerry has done, in a masterful way, is go through and select portions of the Scripture and put words in Jesus' mouth that are legitimate because they already appear in the Bible."

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"You have to take Bible prophecy literally, just like everything else in the Bible."

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Amber Hurdle

"Yes, I think that when the Bible refers to a horse or a horseman, that's exactly what it means."

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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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"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."
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"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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"The big difference between sex for money and sex for free is that sex for money usually costs a lot less."
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"Shakespeare said pretty well everything and what he left out, James Joyce, with a judge from meself, put in."
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"Ah, bless you, Sister, may all your sons be bishops."
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"There is no such thing as bad publicity except your own obituary."
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"What the hell difference does it make, left or right? There were good men lost on both sides."
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"It's not that the Irish are cynical. It's rather that they have a wonderful lack of respect for everything and everybody."
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"All publicity is good, except an obituary notice."
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