"I am married to Beatrice Salkeld, a painter. We have no children, except me."

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Source : "Happily unblessed" by Rose Shepherd, www.theguardian.com. October 18, 2003.

Brendan Behan

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“In income tax, there is no case for amnesty.”
“Similarly, thought is a system. That system not only includes thought and feelings, but it includes the state of the body; it includes the whole of society - as thought is passing back and forth between people in a process by which thought evolved from ancient times.”
“More men have been elected between Sundown and Sunup than ever were elected between Sunup and Sundown.”
“I like to photograph democratically.”
“Robin Goodfellow, for all his pranks and mischief, was the sweetest, most noble person I'd ever known, and I'd missed him terribly.”

Source : Julie Kagawa (2012). “Iron's Prophecy”, p.31, Harlequin
“Self-help must precede help from others. Even for making certain of help from heaven, one has to help oneself.”
“To affirm a person is to see the good in them that they cannot see in themselves and to repeat it in spite of appearances to the contrary. Please, this is not some Pollyanna optimism that is blind to the reality of evil, but rather like a fine radar system that is tuned in to the true, the good, and the beautiful.”
“It is a curiosity of human nature that lack of self-assurance seems to breed an exaggerated sense of power and mission.”

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