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Take deedsAway.
Play music
please. — J.P. Donleavy
The loneliness within him was like slow decay, and with time it would rot its way into his soul.
— R.J. Lewis
You know, there must be happiness somewhere, when a lawyer dies.
— J.P. Donleavy
The inhabitants will always see both sides of an argument so long as it can result in a fight.
— J.P. Donleavy
New York City is where specks of dust aspire randomly with all their cunning to become grains of sand.
— David B. Lentz
How when one is able to indulge the luxury of beginning one's life again.All one thinks
To do
Is end it — J.P. Donleavy
I'm sick of people. The less I have to do with them for the rest of my life the better. I don't careif I die.
— J.P. Donleavy
Writing is turning life's worst moments into money.
— J.P. Donleavy
I'm just trying to grow. That's one thing I told myself is, 'Don't worry about who people say is the best player.'
— Kevin Durant
Dear Mr Skully, I have caught my neck in a mangle and will be indisposed for eternity. Yours in death S.D.
— J.P. Donleavy
The prouder a man is, the more he thinks he deserves, and the more he thinks he deserves, the less he really does deserve.
— Henry Ward Beecher
I'm starved for love. Not ordinary love but real love. The love that's like music or something.
— J.P. Donleavy
September 11 happened, and all my friends were like, 'Let's join the military!' and I was the only one who actually did.
— Adam Driver
To marry the Irish is to look for poverty.
— J.P. Donleavy
I'm all for Christianity, but insolence must be put down.
— J.P. Donleavy
Writing is turning one's worst moments into money.
— J.P. Donleavy
It's important to say that actors can't act alone, it's impossible. What we have to do is support each other.
— Philip Seymour Hoffman
When I die I want to decompose in a barrel of porter and have it served in all the pubs in Dublin.
— J.P. Donleavy
Rid the mind of knowledge when looking for pleasure. Or start thinking and find a lot of pain.
— J.P. Donleavy
It is long accepted by the missionaries that morality is inversely proportional to the amount of clothing people wore
— Alex Carey
Writing: Turning one's worst moments into profit.
— J.P. Donleavy
Real love never fails.
— Karen Kingsbury
People don't hurt what they love.
— Agnes Denes
The best book of the year, Grobel's writing is quite marvelous. The Hustons reads vividly, just like one of John Huston's great films.
— J.P. Donleavy
... With a slight miscalculated leap cleared to the iron picket fence. Put the fear of God into me, picket fences and balls don't mix.
— J.P. Donleavy
Revenge is what I want. Nothing but pure unadulterated revenge. But my mother brought me up to be a lady.
— J.P. Donleavy
I got disappointed in human nature as well and gave it up because I found it too much like my own.
— J.P. Donleavy
When I'm dead, I hope it may be said: his sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
— J.P. Donleavy
If you're going to love somebody, love somebody who needs it.
— J.P. Donleavy
Blessed are they who in this sea of frailty, climb aboard a piece of ass as it floats by. — J.P. Donleavy
I think it's part of everybody's childhood, there are some wonderful Hammer movies and there are some dreadful ones ...
— Jane Goldman
Math - it's not my best subject.
— Heather O'Rourke
Too young for woe, though not for tears.
— Washington Irving
If there's a sickness in America, it's the lack of materialism.
— J.P. Donleavy