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Take deeds
Away.
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

On Being Old. It's not nice but take comfort that you won't stay that way for ever. — J.P. Donleavy

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

Expect the worst
And that's what
You'll get
Only it will be
Much worse. — 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

The purpose of writing is to make your mother and father drop dead with shame. — J.P. Donleavy

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

See all the women seated, youth in their face lifts, old age in their hands. — 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