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Stories are meant to comfort the afflicted, and afflict the comfortable.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Even an Englishman was niver improved by bein' blown up.
— Finley Peter Dunne
She is the clock-guardian. I was thinking about getting a German Shepherd, but they don't blow fire.
— Jonathan Dunne
Gail, we found traces of cancer.
— Lexie Dunne
The American nation in the sixth ward is a fine people; they love the eagle - on the back of a dollar.
— Finley Peter Dunne
I had never attended a trial until my daughter's murder trial. What I witnessed in that courtroom enraged and redirected me.
— Dominick Dunne
Violence is the way stupid people try to level the playing field.
— John Gregory Dunne
If Christian scientists had more science and doctors more Christianity, it wouldn't make any difference which you called in - if you had a good nurse.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Marvin wasn't a beat-box gangsta-rapper-bitch, but a stressed invalid in a town not equipped with ramps.
— Jonathan Dunne
There are no friends at cards or world politics.
— Finley Peter Dunne
The only good husbands stay bachelors: They're too considerate to get married.
— Finley Peter Dunne
I met a few chimpanzees on my pilgrimages and I wasn't sure if they were just shrivelled-up villagers or chimps...
— Jonathan Dunne
Th' first thing to have in a libry is a shelf.Fr'm time to time this can be decorated with lithrachure.
But th' shelf is th' main thing. — Finley Peter Dunne
I don't see hair when I see your mohawk. I see attitude.
— Jonathan Dunne
Vice is a creature of such hideous mien ... that the more you see it the better you like it.
— Finley Peter Dunne
It's more interesting to put yourself in the place of Bette Davis than Irene Dunne, I guess.
— Charles Busch
The Russian Dolls would sue a snowman for sexual harassment if they thought the sun would stay away.
— Jonathan Dunne
If a man is wise, he gets rich an' if he gets rich, he gets foolish, or his wife does. That's what keeps the money movin' around.
— Finley Peter Dunne
To most people a savage nation is wan that doesn't wear oncomf'rtable clothes.
— Finley Peter Dunne
A game you play with your own worst enemy-yourself.
— Finley Peter Dunne
For my type of story and my kind of writing, I think 'Vanity Fair' is the right forum.
— Dominick Dunne
Trust everybody, but always cut the cards.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Nothing can replace the excitement, the magic, and yes the glamour of a Ziegfeld show.
— Irene Dunne
Mama, rest in pieces, used to call it Dada's hibernation because sometimes people don't wake up from a coma.
— Jonathan Dunne
Histhry is a post-mortem examination. It tellsye what a counthry died iv. But I'd like to know what it lived iv.
— Finley Peter Dunne
We've all got trashy friends, but we should choose our trashy friends with more care.
— Dominick Dunne
But some jokes are hilarious until they become true and they're not so funny anymore.
— Jonathan Dunne
Parties are the nightly ritual of the sophisticated society.
— Dominick Dunne
My old man always told me to retrace my steps, but what's the point if I can't remember where my feet are, let alone my footsteps...
— Jonathan Dunne
I know all the swear words. I just don't use them. There are worse things in life than being called a Lady.
— Irene Dunne
Humour is my best defence, so humour me.
— Jonathan Dunne
You think road-kill is poetry!
— Jonathan Dunne
It is more comfortable to feel that we are a slight improvement on a monkey than such a fallin' off from the angels.
— Finley Peter Dunne
I wonder why you can always read a doctor's bill and you can never read his prescription.
— Finley Peter Dunne
I niver knew a pollytician to go wrong ontil he's been contaminated by contact with a business man.
— Finley Peter Dunne
The eleventh commandment of a motion picture negotiation: Thou shalt not take less than thy last deal.
— John Gregory Dunne
Charlene's thoughts:I'm next in the green jumper's Class. I thought I'd be in the red jumpers' class because of my red hair. — Deanie Humphrys-Dunne
For me, the path of failure exceeded by far the joys of success. My plight was hopeless.
— Dominick Dunne
I'll leave the swearing to the Jane Fondas.
— Irene Dunne
There's always wan encouragin' thing about th' sad scientific facts that come out ivrv week in th' pa-apers. They're usually not thrue.
— Finley Peter Dunne
The Puritans gave thanks for being preserved from the Indians, and we give thanks for being preserved from the Puritans.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Novels do take charge of the writer, and the writer is basically a kind of sheepdog just trying to keep things on track.
— John Gregory Dunne
My old man always told me never do anything during the day that will keep you awake at night.
— Jonathan Dunne
I met Steve McQueen once. Well, met isn't really the right word.
— Griffin Dunne
Payback takes many forms but from the business-end of a Christmas turkey isn't a form I would've bet on...
— Jonathan Dunne
Th' dead ar-re always pop'lar. I knowed a society wanst to vote a monyment to a man an' refuse to help his fam'ly, all in wan night.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Sarah is a mirage after all; an oasis in this arid, amnesiac, desert mindscape. I fear if I get too close she too will turn to dust.
— Jonathan Dunne
No, there was nothing unusual in any of these dreams as dreams. They were merely displaced in Time.
— J.W. Dunne
Gonzo, the enlightened hippy-biker island god, was a hermit in every sense of the word; a hermit crab and this island was his shell.
— Jonathan Dunne
Ruby: Oh Rosie Dunne, expect the unexpected for once. Maybe this time you won't get such a shock when things don't go your way.
— Cecelia Ahern
If ye live enough befure thirty ye won't care to live at all afther fifty.
— Finley Peter Dunne
And before you make any judgments, that time you were trying out your king-size with the sales assistant doesn't count as getting a man into bed.
— Jonathan Dunne
I wish this country was run by children
— Jonathan Dunne
My father was this famous heart surgeon, a wonderful man ... but there was something about me that drove him crazy.
— Dominick Dunne
Freedom is like drink. If you take any at all, you might as well take enough to make you happy for a while.
— Finley Peter Dunne
I think I need pictures with my articles.
— Dominick Dunne
Work is work if you're paid to do it, and it's a pleasure if you pay to be allowed to do it.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Thank you. This kimono was handmade by the Chinese silkworms themselves, I'm led to believe.
— Jonathan Dunne
Time will always have the answer in the end, whether you like that answer is immaterial to Time because it tends not to keep friends.
— Jonathan Dunne
Alcohol is necessary for a man so that he can have a good opinion of himself, undisturbed be the facts.
— Finley Peter Dunne
The world is divided up into two kinds of people - those who look at their body waste in the toilet bowl, and those who don't.
— John Gregory Dunne
There are two types of people ... the scrutinizers and the scrutinized
— John Gregory Dunne
A just cause should need no interpretation yet flounders when confronted by self- interest and corruption.
— Peter Dunne
The narrative was too constricted; it was like a fetus strangling on its own umbilical cord.
— John Gregory Dunne
Documentaries have always inspired me in narrative filmmaking.
— Griffin Dunne
Henry," he said. "You are skilled. I exhort you.
— Chad Harbach
You can really call Irene Dunne 'The First Lady of Hollywood', because she's the first real lady Hollywood has ever seen.
— Leo McCarey
Most vegetarians I ever see looked enough like their food to be classed as cannibals.
— Finley Peter Dunne
What is instinct? It is the natural tendency in one when filled with dismay to turn to his wife.
— Finley Peter Dunne
Trying to build the brotherhood of man without the fatherhood of God is like trying to make a wheel without a hub.
— Irene Dunne
I'll buy Chiquita bananas with your smoking-fund money cos this monkey is our future. All hail the monkey!
— Jonathan Dunne
Because one has written other books does not mean the next becomes any easier.
— John Gregory Dunne
A man can be right and president, but he can't be both at the same time.
— Finley Peter Dunne
It's easy to understand why the most beautiful poems about England in the spring were written by poets living in Italy at the time.
— Philip Dunne
What do you read for pleasure?Kama Sutra. — Jonathan Dunne
Every time I act in something, I learn something about what the director is doing. One feeds the other.
— Griffin Dunne
There is no fence nor hedge round time that is gone. You can go back and have what you like of it if you can remember.
— Philip Dunne
Why did you call me Jack of Hearts?''Because you like to gamble girls' hearts and play them close to your chest. — Jonathan Dunne
I began high school in 1959, B.C. (before cable).
— Danny Dunne
In that brief kiss, Arthur's demigod had abandoned him.
— Jonathan Dunne
You can be much more alone with other people than you are by yourself. Even if it's people you love.
— Philip Dunne
